State v. Black Band Consolidated Coal Co.

Maxwell, Judge :

On this certification there is presented the question of the sufficiency of the answer of Cambridge Gas Company filed in the chancery cause of the State of West Virginia v. Black Band Consolidated Coal Company and others. The trial chancellor sustained a demurrer to the said answer and certified his ruling to us for examination and review.

The suit is prosecuted on behalf of the state by the commissioner of school lands for Kanawha County to subject to sale for the benefit of the public school fund certain described parcels of land alleged to have become forfeited to the State.

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