Minor v. Pursglove Coal Mining Co.

Litz, Judge:

This suit, in its final stage, involves the ownership of royalties under a coal mining lease as between the lessors and the beneficiaries under a deed conveying the leased premises, in trust to secure the payment of promissory notes.

By deed dated October 1, 1923, James L. Rush conveyed to Jarvis Coal Company, a corporation, a one-third undivided interest in a tract of approximately 108 acres of land in Monongalia County (including the Sewickley seam and a small portion of the Pittsburgh vein of coal therein), owned equally by H. Jarvis Eldred, E. M. Everly and himself; the…