Buck Creek R. Co. v. Haws

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Bees

Reversing.

These two eases were tried together in the court below, and they will be disposed of in one opinion.

H. Haws, appellee in the first case, owns 16 acres of land situated on Buck creek, in Martin county. The heirs of Evelyn Copley, appellees in the second case, own 13 acres of land adjoining the Haws land. In 1920 the Hinder Coal Company constructed a railroad through these two tracts of land, and operated it until November 27,- 1924, when it sold the railroad to the Buck Creek Railroad Company. On May 2, 1925, the Buck Creek Railroad Company leased the…