Amick v. Gauley Coal Land Co.

Maxwell, Judge :

From a decree entered December 8, 1936, by the Circuit Court of Greenbrier County, sustaining defendants’ demurrer to plaintiffs’ bill and, upon plaintiffs’ failure to indicate a desire to amend, dismissing the bill, plaintiffs appeal. The decree gives the circuit .court’s reason for its action “that the plaintiffs’ bill of complaint does not show grounds of equitable jurisdiction and is not sufficient in equity and that plaintiffs have an adequate remedy at law.”

The lone question presented here is the sufficiency of the bill.

A. L. Amick, L. M. Helms and W. E. R. Byrne filed…