Runnion v. Morrison

Williams, Judge :

E. E. Runnion. recovered a judgment for $852.33 against W. E. Morrison in the circuit court of Braxton county, and Morrison was granted this writ of error.

Counsel for defendant insist that the verdict is against both the law and the evidence; and the first assignment of error relates to the overruling of defendant's motion to set it aside. The action was brought to recover fifty cents per acre for making sale of coal underlying certain lands in Braxton county, aggregating 2,074 acres, of which J. H. Chapman owned 190 acres, E. J. Hall 139.7 acres and plaintiff the balance. On…