Mounts v. Roberts

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The trial court determined that under the terms of a deed executed in 1904 by Anderson Mounts, and following the life estate of Rebecca Mounts (now deceased), each of Mounts’ 7 sons and 3 daughters was entitled to an undivided Yio interest in the coal and each of his sons received an undivided Vi interest in the minerals other than coal underlying a certain tract of land. From a judgment accordingly entered Mounts’ sons have appealed contending that the daughters are not entitled to any interest in the coal. One daughter of Mounts and the heirs and devisee of his two…