Blackburn v. Pond Creek Coal & Land Co.

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

The Pond Creek Coal and Land Company, appellee, filed this action against Dixie Blackburn, Clyde Maynard, Ernest Blackburn, and Emzy Blackburn, appellants, claiming that they had trespassed upon land owned by appellee and had mined coal therefrom. It was adjudged that appellee was the owner of all the coal in, on, and under the lands in dispute, together with mining rights, and was entitled to certain funds impounded as the proceeds of coal mined. Appellants also were enjoined from further mining of the coal, and the title of appellee was quieted.

This controversy concerns…