Yukon Pocahontas Coal Co. v. Ratliff

Five corporations, the appellants, the Yukon Pocahontas Coal Company, the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, the *368Buchanan Coal Company, the Sayers Pocahontas Coal Company, Inc., and the Red Jacket Coal Corporation, filed their bill in the Circuit Court of Buchanan county against F. M. Ratliff and ninety other defendants, seeking a declaratory judgment in a controversy involving the interpretation of a deed, and praying for an injunction to prevent an alleged unlawful interference with the exercise of the rights and privileges granted to the appellants in the said deed.

Two demurrers to the bill were…