French v. Stange Mining Co.

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity for a discovery and an accounting. The decree from which this appeal was taken sustained a demurrer and dismissed the bill.

The appellants, hereinafter designated as the complainants, are the heirs at law of one Davis Byrnes, and as such inherited his title to a tract of land containing 177 acres. This land lay within the boundaries of a larger tract which had been sold by the Camp Manufacturing Company to one B. T. Johnson, Jr. There was a valuable deposit of manganese ore on the 177 acres, and early in the year 1918 the…