Pearne v. Coal Creek M. & M. Co.

This is a bill to remove an alleged cloud from the title to certain mineral interests in land, and to establish a right of way over and under the surface of adjacent land for the removal of the minerals.

*621Defendant, by answer, denied tliat complainant was entitled to any relief at all. On final hearing the Chancellor granted the prayer of the bill in part and refused it in part. Both parties appealed specially.

In 1837 the State granted to Moore & Spessard a tract of land containing two thousand acres, of which they conveyed two hundred acres to Bullock and subsequently two hundred acres to…