Evans v. United States Anthracite Coal Co.

On the 14tb day of May, 1927, the appellees brought 'suit in the Johnson Chancery Court for an order enjoining and restraining the appellants from entering into and upon certain lands described in the complaint, alleging that they held a lease executed, by which they were given the right to' mine the coal from the demised premises, and that the appellants (defendants in that suit) were claiming to be the owners of the tract of land leased, and that they had served notice upon the plaintiffs that the lease had been canceled, and they alleged that the defendants were trespassing upon the leased…