North Jellico Coal Co. v. Helton

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

On March. 23, 1897, the North Jellico Coal Company purchased from Martha Helton and her husband all the coal underlying thirty-nine acres of land, with the privilege of making openings, roads and tramways, for the purpose of removing the coal. From the boundary embracing the coal there was reserved “a square acre of land with the red bud as one of its corners.”

Alleging that the North Jellico Coal Company had wrongfully and unlawfully entered upon her other land, constructed tramroads, thrown great…