Standard Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Riggs

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

On April 23,1920, the appellant and defendant below, Standard Elkhorn Coal Company, a corporation, filed an equity action in the Floyd circuit court against appellees and plaintiffs below, W. H. Riggs, et al., whereby it sought to establish its title and ownership in and to certain grades • and classes of timber standing on a tract of land in that county containing about 200 acres, and to enjoin defendants in that action from cutting and removing the timber in which they were at that time engaged. A temporary restraining order was issued upon the…