Hellier Coal & Coke Co. v. Bowling

CLAY, Commissioner.

■This suit was brought by. appellees to recover damages for-the mining of coal and to-have title quieted to a tr.act of land in Pike County.' ■ The Chancellor denied a recovery of damages but adjudged appellees the fee simple owners of approximately 60 acres of land.

There is involved in this controversy a number of surveys, patents, deeds and a claim of adverse possession. In effect the judgment upheld the claim of adverse possession to a boundary encompassed by a void patent issued in 1903.

Appellant claims only the coal underlying the tract, except for about two acres to…