Stoffler v. Edgewater Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

This appeal is from a judgment quieting appellee’s title to the mineral in a tract of 120 acres of land in Pike county.

Pleasant Bartley was the owner of a large tract of land on the Ash Camp branch of Elkhom creek in Pike county, to which he derived title through a patent issued to N. C. Morse and others on October 10, 1866.

On February 10, 1887, Pleasant Bartley executed to E. B. Moon a title bond by which, in consideration of certain payments to be made, he sold and agreed to convey to Moon “all the coal, mineral, oil and gas in and on all those…