Coleman Mining Co. v. McClanahan

STANLEY, Commissioner.. The case was submitted to a jury on issues of whether the plaintiff, Janie Mc-Clanahan, was 'the owner of a parcel of about two acres and the defendant, Coleman Mining Company, had dumped or deposited upon the land rock and other debris in such quantities as to destroy its value. The verdict was for $400 in favor of the plaintiff.

The defendant had denied that the plaintiff owned the land but pleaded alternatively that if ■ she had any title, it was only to the surface and that the defendant owned the minerals and had used the surface necessarily and reasonably for the…