Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. Levine

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

A decisive question in this case is the validity of a deed purporting to have been executed and acknowledged by Jonathan YYlford and wife, Yashti Wolford, on June 24,1889, and recorded in the county court clerk’s office of Pike county on July 11, 1889, whereby they purported to convey to J. Stras, trustee of the Kentucky Coal Company, all of the coal under and in a tract of land on Peter creek in Pike county containing about 198 acres. The writing purports to have been acknowledged by the grantors in due form before one J. D. Wolford, who was then…