MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL, INCORPORATED v. White

This is a controversy over the ownership of an undivided one-third interest in the coal and minerals in, on and under 321.5 acres of land on New House Branch of Slate Creek in Buchanan county. Mountain Mission School, Incorporated, hereinafter referred to as appellant, claims ownership- of the entire tract of land and minerals theron; while Mary Preston White and ten other heirs-at-law of James L. White, and John A. Blakemore, devisee of John A. Buchanan, hereinafter referred to as appellees, claim a one-third undivided interest in the coal and minerals on the tract.

This proceeding was…