Logsdon v. Brailer Mining Co.

In 1850 William L. Logsdon, hereinafter called William Logsdon, Sr., of Allegany County, Maryland, and his wife, by deed recorded among the Land Records of said county, conveyed the coal, seams and strata of coal on certain tracts, lots or parcels of land owned by’ him in said county to I. Washington Tyson. That part of the deed containing a description of the property conveyed, and with which we are concerned in this case, is as follows:

“This Indenture, made this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty:

“Between William Logsdon and…