Collett v. Fordson Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Shelby Collett brought an action against the Ford-son Coal Company to recover possession of two .tracts of land located on.Bowens creek in Leslie county, and for damages in the sum of $500. In its answer and counterclaim, the defendant asserted superior paper title to the two tracts of land, and further alleged that in an, action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, where the Gr. F. Stearns Land & Lumber Company, its predecessor in title, was plaintiff, and Elizabeth Collett and George Collett, plaintiff’s…