Cresap v. Kemble

Johnson, President:

At February rules, 1882, the plaintiff, Ruhama Cresap, filed her bill in the circuit court of Preston county against Catharine Carroll, afterwards Catharine Kemble, in which she alleged title to certain land in her bill described, situated in said Preston county. She also alleged, that “ a part of her said land was in the woods, and that there .was a coal-bank opened on said land.” The bill charges, that the defendant, Catharine Carroll, “ is advised and is preparing to enter on said land and drive your oratrix and her hands out of her enclosure, and cut and sell the timber…