Martin v. Kentucky West Virginia Gas Co.

CLAY, Commissioner.

This action involves conflicting claims to mineral rights in a tract of land in Knott County. Appellees trace their title to the Commonwealth. Appellants’ claim ultimately must be based on adverse possession (although several deeds are involved).

Appellants claim through Louanza Hall, the wife of the grantor through whom ap-pellees claim. No actual adverse possession was proved. Her title, if any, was based on constructive possession of a certain boundary traceable to a deed from William Johnson to John Johnson, dated 1824. The description in that deed began at a certain…