David v. Coal Creek Mining & Manufacturing Co.

This cause comes to this Court on discretionary appeal from the Chancery Court of Anderson County.

In the course of this opinion the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the court below; that is, appellants, H. P. David and Minnie B. David, as defendants, and appellee, Coal Creek Mining and Manufacturing Company, as complainant.

Complainant is a domestic corporation, having its principal office in Knoxville, Tennessee. The record shows that complainant is owner of approximately 53,000 acres of land in Anderson, Campbell, Morgan and Boane Counties, Tennessee.

On May 4, 1951,…