State Ex Rel. Shatzer v. Freeport Coal Co.

CalhouN, Judge :

The defendant, Freeport Coal Company, a corporation, instituted a number of suits in the Circuit Court of Preston County during the year 1954, in which suits it sought to establish its ownership of the Bakerstown seam of coal underlying certain real estate in Pleasants District of that county. One of these suits was against Eobert Shatzer, relator herein, (hereinafter referred to as “the plaintiff”) and Nina Mabel Graham, his lessor, and on April 20, 1954, the circuit court granted in that suit a temporary injunction in favor of Free-port Coal Company restraining Eobert…