Scott v. Mineral Development Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
1Opinion of the Court
SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.
This is an action of ejectment brought by the Mineral Development Company to recover the possession of certain parcels of land in Eetcher county, Ky. The defendants John S. and Mary D. Wentz claim to own the lands, and Scott and Raleigh were their tenants in possession of some of them. The plaintiff founds its claim of title upon a patent made by the state February 28, 1874, to William H. Nickels for a tract consisting of 34,800 acres of land in said county on a survey made by him in 1873. The tract so patented was on February 3, 1882, conveyed by Nickels to Joseph B.…
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