Pinkney v. Dixon

Miller, Judge:

The defendants, besides Samuel Dixon, in his own right and as president of the Price Hill Colliery company, are the Price Hill Colliery Company, a "corporation, George H. Butman, secretary thereof, and Fred Dixon, Jr., the latter a son, and the plaintiff, H. H. Pinkney, a son-in-law of the said Samuel Dixon.

The defendant company since 1899 has been the owner in fee of 1159 acres of land situated in Fayette and Raleigh counties, this state, then well timbered and underlaid with valuable seams of coal, acquired from the said Samuel Dixon and associates, to whom in payment of the…