Laurel Creek Coal & Coke Co. v. Browning
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Oircu.it Court of Tazewell county, pronounced September 9, 1899, in a suit in chancery, wherein appellees, Browning and wife, were the complainants, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The property involved in this litigation consists of three adjoining tracts of land situated on Laurel creek, Tazewell county, Virginia, embracing in the aggregate a surface area of 363f acres. This land was, on June 17, 1895, held in fee simple as follows:
Hattie E. Stras and A. C. Spotts were the owners of 150 acres, and they, jointly with H. C. Alderson and T. H. Wickham, were the owners of 1681/3 acres, and W. L. Bead was the owner of a moiety of 90 acres, the residue thereof.
The chief value of these lands consists of the coal deposits which they contain, being underlain with what is known…
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