Gamble v. Kennedy

Ritz, Judge:

It is alleged by the plaintiff that she is the owner of a tract of seventeen acres of land, of which she has been in possession ever since her purchase of the same in 1892. She avers that the defendant is the owner of an adjoining tract of land which was formerly owned by J. William Gamble. She says that in September, 1906, she optioned the coal under her land, at which time she ascertained that the defendant was making claim to a small part thereof adjoining his land, containing about one and one-quarter acres; that the defendant’s claim was without merit, and she declined to…