Morrison v. Clarksburg Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County. Bill by James II. Morrison against the Clarksburg Coal and Coke Company and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MoWiiorter, Judge:
Arthur Cowan was the owner of three tracts of land in Harrison County, one containing three hundred and ten acres, another sixteen acres, another sixty acres, aggregating three hundred and eighty-six acres. On the 16th day of February, 1860, he conveyed to Gideon D. Camden, Edgar C. Wilson and Delia M. Allen, executrix of Guy R. C. Allen, deceased, in consideration of one thousand dollars cash “All the one full half of all tho stone coal in and upon the following tracts of land,” describing the three hundred and ten acres and the sixteen acres of land, granting in the same…
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