Altizer v. Jewel Ridge Coal Corp.

J. T. Altizer and M. V. Mullins filed separate bills of complaint praying that the Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation be enjoined from cutting and removing the timber from certain lands owned by them. A temporary injunction was granted in each case, depositions were taken, and the facts being practically the same, by agreement the cases were heard together. A decree was entered dissolving the temporary injunction and dismissing both cases. From that decree the complainants were granted an appeal.

The contention of the parties arose out of the following facts: J. T. Altizer owned a tract of land…