Mineral Development Co. v. Tuggle Land & Timber Co.

RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit in equity instituted by the Tuggle Land & Timber Company, claiming to be the owner of certain trees on two tracts of land in Eetcher county, Ky.—one containing 404 acres, and the other 1749 acres—to enjoin the Mineral Development Company and A. B. Asher from denying, preventing, or in any wise interfering with its right to own, cut, and market the said trees. The plaintiff claimed title by intermediate conveyances from one Isom Stamper, under patent No. 10,899, issued to him by the commonwealth of Kentucky, February 5, 1848, for 12,000 acres of land.…