Ventro v. Clinchfield Coal Corporation

In this suit instituted by Clinchfield Coal Corporation against James Ventro, Lee Dotson, Carlyle Browning, Verlin Browning, and Gerald Browning, defendants, it asserted ownership to all coal, other minerals, oil and mining rights in a tract of land on Bold Camp Creek in Wise county, Virginia, containing 175 acres. The object of the suit was to quiet and remove clouds from Clinchfield’s title to the coal, other minerals and oil occasioned by James Ventro’s claims under deeds and through alleged adverse possession, enjoin Ventro and his lessees from mining coal, and have an accounting for all…