Brier Hill Collieries v. Pile

The bill in this cause was brought by Brier Hill Collieries, Stearns Coal & Lumber Company, and trustees under certain deeds of trust against the widow and heirs-at-law of S. H. Pile, deceased, the devisees of A. L. Crawford, and'others, to remove cloud from title and enjoin an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Fentress county. The land involved comprises about forty-five hundred acres bounded on the south by the parallel of latitude of 36 degrees, 30 minutes, known as the Matthews line as it was surveyed by Thomas J. Matthews in the year 1826 for the State of Kentucky in order to…