Swift Coal & Timber Co. v. Cornett

OPINION op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

By its petition filed in the Letcher circuit court,' the Swift Coal & Timber Company, a corporation, alleged that it is the owner and entitled to possession of a tract of 90.50 acres of land fully described therein, that defendants William Cornett and Joseph Cornett had within the year prior to the filing of the petition unlawfully entered upon this tract of land and cut and removed trees therefrom, and that William Cornett was claiming to be the owner of the land and giving out statements that he intended to enter thereupon at his pleasure.…