Davis Colliery Co. v. Westfall

Williams, Peesident:

This writ of error’ was awarded Davis Colliery Company, a corporation, plaintiff, to a judgment of the circuit court of Randolph county in favor of the defendants, W. E. and I. B. Westfall, rendered upon the verdict of a jury, in an action of ejectment, finding defendants entitled, in fee simple, to 295 acres of land, a part of the land claimed by plaintiff. Defendants offered no evidence and relied upon the insufficiency of plaintiff’s evidence to identify the land claimed by it.

It is proven, and was also admitted by opposing counsel, in his oral argument, that the…