Northern Coal & Coke Co. v. Vermillion

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hobson

Affirming.

The Northern Coal and Coke Company brought this suit against W. S. Vermillion to recover the value of certain logs cut by him from a tract of land described in the petition which it alleged it owned. He filed an answer denying that the plaintiff was the owner of the boundary of land set out in the petition, and pleaded that he was the owner of a certain boundary of land, and that the logs were cut from it. The case was heard before a jury who found for Vermillion, and the coal company appeals.

On April 17,1872, D. J. Vermillion under whom W. S.…