Stribling v. Coal Co.

Snyder, Judge:

In 1871, the Splint Coal Company, a corporation, was created and organized under the laws of this State for the purpose of mining coal, manufacturing iron and salt, and for other purposes. Between the date of its organization and December 1,1875, the said company had become the owner and vested with the legal title to a large body of land, nearly 3,000 acres, situated on the south side of the Kanawha river, a short distance above the city of Charleston, in Kanawha county, of which about 900 acres was bottom land and the residue was hill land, with the improvements thereon,…