HARTFORD, Ky. — The Associated Press News Service is reporting a dispute over the use of Bill Monroe's name is headed for a bench trial in western Kentucky.
The Ohio County Industrial Foundation and the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation are at issue over transferred rights to use Monroe's name and likeness. The foundation produces the annual Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Celebration at Monroe's homestead in Rosine.
Campbell Mercer, Jerusalem Ridge Foundation executive director, told the Messenger-Inquirer of Owensboro he anticipated the trial, which begins Tuesday, to take one or two days.
The foundation filed the lawsuit over issues that have simmered since 2007, including whether about $162,000 the Industrial Foundation provided as a down payment on Monroe's mandolin was a loan.
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