Clear Fork Coal Co. v. Anchor Coal Co.

Lively, Judge:

Anchor Coal Company prosecutes error to a judgment of the circuit court of Raleigh County, entered March 17, 1930, on a verdict in favor of plaintiffs in an action of ejectment in which about thirty acres of coal land was in dispute. The parties have coal lease deeds from a common grantor, the Coal River Mining & Lumber Company, which, in the year 1909, owned in fee a tract of 5356 acres of coal lying in Raleigh and Boone Counties on the waters of Big Coal River. In that year, the grantor laid off its tract into five mining leases, and had map prepared showing division of the…