Medusa Portland Cement Co. v. Lamantina

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The curious fact in this case is that, a corporation having purchased a tract of land, and having made a substantial payment to the vendor at the time of the making of the contract, and having made another such payment five years later, and having paid interest on the remaining instalment still due, and having taken and, together with its successor, maintained possession until the present time (a period of 21 years), the successor corporation now claims that there are defects in the title to the coal underlying part of the tract, notwithstanding that, if…