Straley v. Perdue

.English, Judge :

The plaintiffs H. W. Straley and David E. Johnston filed their bill at November rules, 1885, in the Circuit Court of Mercer county against George W. Perdue, charging that on the 14th day of December, 1881, they purchased by contract in writing from said Perdue all of the coal contained on, in, beneath and over the surface of all and every part, parcel and acre of two tracts or parcels of land, one of which is situated on the waters of Simmon’s Creek, of Blue-stone river, the same on which said Perdue then resided and which was conveyed to him by Henry Bell, but there was *376excep…