Jones v. Mosley

The numerous, pleadings and the proof in these consolidated suits presented these two ultimate and controlling issues:(1) Whether a mining lease of coal land in what is known as- the Jacob Brown tract in Sequatchie County, made July 7,1937, by J. 0. Mosley and wife to Fred Jones and John Cartwright, is valid and, if so, whether it covers all the coal land in this tract, including that later leased by Mosley and wife to Ed Tate and Ernest Layne.(2) Whether J. C. Mosley acquired title to this tract from the heirs of Jacob Brown, deceased, excluding a one-tenth undivided interest disclaimed by…