Gauley Coal Land Ass'n v. Spies

Sanders, Judge:

This is a suit in chancery, brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county, by the Ga,uley Coa.1 Land Association against Henry Spies and R. H. Ely, having for its object the enforcement of a vendor’s lien retained by .the plaintiff in a deed executed by it to the defendants, conveying to them all of the timber above a certain size standing upon various tracts of land in Greenbrier and Nicholas counties. From a decree in favor of the plaintiff, the defendants have appealed.

The defendants demurred to the bill, assigning as a ground therefor that the plaintiff filed copies of…