Kentucky Coal Lands Co. v. Baker

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

This action in ejectment was brought in February, 1912, by the appellee, Mat Baker, against the appellants, the Kentucky Coal Lands Company, and Hiram Napier, its tenant. In its answer, after denying title in Baker, the company for itself and Napier, set up various defenses, which, so far as seem pertinent to a decision of the case, will be noticed in the course of the opinion.

The litigation involves the title to and possession of a tract of land containing about one hundred acres, for which William Begley obtained a patent in 1834. In 1840…