Fordson Coal Co. v. Vanover

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

— Affirming.

This appeal is from a judgment declaring appellees, E. M. Vanover and Milda Witt, to be the owners of an undivided one-fourth inteiest in 300 acres of land of which the appellant, Fordson Coal Company, claims entire ownership and decreeing partition of the land.

The land in controversy was originally owned by Davis Wooten and by inheritance became vested in his two sons and two daughters, one of these daughters being Elizabeth Wooten, the mother of appellees.

In 1882 a deed was executed purporting to convey the land in controversy to John Brewer.…