Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Danks

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The suit was instituted by Thomas S. Danks and his sister, Mrs. Ruth Danks White, against Warfield Natural Gas Company and Virginian Gasoline & Oil Company. The plaintiffs alleged that they were the holders of the legal title to, and the owners and in possession of a certain described tract of land “containing, as is supposed, 200 acres, be there more or less,” in Martin, county, and that the defendants were making claims hostile and adverse to their title. The court was asked to quiet plaintiffs’’ title. The. defendants merely traversed…