Mayberry v. Beck

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is an action to recover land in Bourbon county, and for coal alleged to have been taken from the land. On August 18, 1886, H. N. May-berry was the owner of a quarter-section of land, and on that day he conveyed to the Mt. Zion Moore’s Branch Christian Church organization a small part, being twelve rods long and eight rods wide, out of the northwest corner of the land, describing it by metes and bounds. In 1896 he executed a deed to H. J. Winter, conveying the west half of this quarter-section, with the reservation “except one acre…