Hall v. Harvey Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Case certified from Circuit Court, Fayette County. Action by O. M. Hall against the Harvey Coal & Coke Company. Demurrer to the declaration overruled, and case certified.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively, Judge:
A demurrer to the declaration was overruled, and the circuit court has certified its action in so doing to this court, and the sufficiency of the declaration is now under review.
Plaintiff filed its declaration in trespass on the case, alleging ownership of the surface of a .tract of land, the coal and all minerals under which, prior to his purchase of the surface had been sold by a former owner in the year 1898 to Harvey and Thurmond, with the right to mine and remove the same, the deed to which coal and all minerals' is filed with *57the declaration as a part thereof; that the…
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- Faulconer v. StinsonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1898
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