Wilmore Coal Co. v. Brown

ARCHBALD, District Judge.1

This is a bill to remove an alleged cloud bn the plaintiff’s title. In the years 1878 and 1880, the defendant J. Willcox Brown, a resident of Baltimore, Md., secured a large number of mining leases, aggregating about 16,000 acres, in different tracts, of various sizes, in Somerset county, Pa., as well- as a like number in the adjoining counties of Indiana and Cambria, nineteen of which, of the Somerset lot, covering some 2,400 acres, are involved in the present suit. These leases were indentures under seal, and severally undertook, for the consideration, in some…