Graham v. Beavur Hill Coal Co.

BEEEINGER, District Judge.

This is a suit for an accounting for the use and occupation by the defendant of some 30 dwelling houses, four cabins, a store, garden house, carhouse, cattle yard and pens, and garden and pasture, for a period from the 3d day of December, 1897, to the 9th of April, 1902. It is alleged that the reasonable value of the use and occupation in question is $17,464.36.

The averments of the answer are to the following effect: From *612March 21, 1885, to April 9, 1892, Graham, the complainant, was in possession of the tract of land upon which the buildings in question were…