Langley v. Devlin

Chadwick, J. —

Appellants brought this action to recover their proportionate share of an one-tenth interest in certain coal mining property which respondents, Page and Devlin, had retained and, as it is alleged, fraudulently concealed from plaintiffs and others interested in the property, when they passed the title to the Corbin Coal & Coke Company, the present owner. It is not denied that there was originally a mutuality of interest in the property, but defendants contend that they took an option upon the several interests of their co-owners at a price that was satisfactory to them, and…