Perkins v. Southern Coal Corp.

MOORE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff in her bill of complaint alleges that she was possessed of all the coal and minerals underlying a certain tract of land situate on the Vance Fork of Panther Creek, a tributary of Tug River, *10in McDowell County, West Virginia, and that while so possessed, the defendant entered upon the land and unlawfully mined, removed and converted the coal thereunder of the value of $700,000. Defendant having indicated that it would rely upon the defense of res adjudicata by reason of the record and judgment in a certain action of ejectment involving this same tract of land,…