Blair v. Shannon

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from a dismissal of a bill in equity. Appellants were legatees and devisees under the tenth paragraph of the last will and testament of William Shannon and as such they claimed that they were entitled to a certain interest in a “three foot vein” of coal underlying lands devised in that will and they asked for an accounting for all rents, issues and profits which may have been received by one of the appellees from the leasing, mining and sale of that coal.

Shannon, the testator, owned, inter alia, a tract of land of 230 acres. By an agreement…