French v. Clinchfield Coal Corp.

This suit involves the legal and equitable title to a tract of land alleged to contain a hundred acres, more or less, but in fact containing one hundred and fifty acres, lying on the south side of Cumberland Mountain in Dickenson county.

The Clinchfield Coal Corporation claims title to the land involved under a grant or patent issued on July 3, 1860, by the Commonwealth to A. F. Henderson for 2,317 acres. *215G. Mark French and R. L. Wright claim title under a grant from the Commonwealth bearing date March 22, 1926, conveying to them a tract of one hundred acres, more or less. When the Clinchfield…