Ewing v. Sandoval Coal & Mining Co.

This was a bill in equity, brought by the Sandoval Coal and Mining Company, against Samuel Ewing, to correct a mistake in a deed executed on the 6th day of November, 1877, by Samuel Ewing, to Ozias Townsend, in trust for the St. Louis and Sandoval Coal and Mining Company. The deed conveyed the exclusive right to mine and excavate for coal, and to remove the same under and beneath the east half of the north-west quarter of section 17, township 2, north of range 1, east of the third principal meridian, in Marion county, and it is alleged in the bill that it was the intention to convey the east…