Penny v. Central Coal & Coke Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in error brought action in trespass against the defendant in error to recover the value of coal mined on, and removed from, a two-acre tract of land claimed to be in the possession of the Cherokee.Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal Church, represented by the plaintiffs in error as trustees. Inasmuch as at tire close of the plaintiffs’ evidence the court directed a verdict for, and entered judgment in favor of, the defendant, it is necessary to give a summary of the facts disclosed by the evidence.
The religious body above named, first known as the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's ExecutorsSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- Beatty and Ritchie v. Kurtz and OthersSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
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- United States v. ChavesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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- Conner v. HeatonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1943
- Richland v. CrandallDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1966
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