Frasure v. Northern Coal & Coke Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

The appellee, Northern Coal & Coke Company, filed this action in 1909 against appellant, Eobert Frasure, and his •wife, Lizzie Frasure, to quiet its title to 287 acres of land conveyed to it in 1903 by Tipton Hall; to enjoin defendants from trespassing- thereon and to cancel deeds to them alleged- to be champertous for 82 acres of the 287 acre tract.

Defendants by answer and counterclaim traversed the material allegations of the petition, asserted title to the 82 acres under the deeds alleged to be champertous and asked that their title to same be…