Steinman Coal Corp. v. Fleming

In 1856 Phillip Fleming secured a deed from the Warders conveying to him a tract of land in fee, supposed to contain 1,000 acres, which later, by actual survey, proved to contain 2,008 acres. Prior to 1870 Phillip Fleming sold from this tract several boundaries of land, including one called the Collier tract and ■another known as the Rose tract.

Phillip Fleming was the father of John W. Fleming, who married Mary Jane Fleming, the appellee, in October, 1870. Prior to the marriage Phillip Fleming gave to his son, John W. Fleming, a boundary of land out of his Warder tract, known as the “Rocky…