Douglas v. Kingsley

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Arnold,

In this action of ejectment plaintiffs appeal from judgment of the court below entered for defendant upon the directed verdict of a jury. They contend that the court erred in directing the jury to find for defendant *60if it determined to be valid certain documents of title in defendant.

The evidence established that in 1828 Isaac London, then owner of the land, leased to one Meredith for 100 years, the coal thereunder with right to mine and remove. In 1840 London conveyed the land (subject to the Meredith lease) to J. Burr Kenyon, “together with the . . . minerals, .…