Liberty Coal Company v. Baker

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

In the year 1887, T. P. Trigg, as trustee, took deeds for the minerals in a large body of land in Perry county. This title as to the land in controversy passed by proper conveyances to the Virginia Iron Coal & Coke Company, and it on June 25, 1917, leased to the Liberty Coal Company 1,500 acres of the land lying between First and Second creek and including a tract conveyed by Andrew Milam and wife to Trigg, trustee, on July 20, 1887. The Liberty Coal Company entered on the property; spent $150,000 in putting up tipples, tracks, houses,…