Winding Gulf Colliery Co. v. Campbell

POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT:

The tract of land recovered in this action of ejectment contains about 150 acres, part of a larger tract of 765 acres, de-feianded in the declaration and treated and sought to be recovered by the plaintiff, the Winding Gulf Colliery Company, as part of a tract of 19,751 acres, known as lot No. 4 in the partition of the Moore and Beckley survey of 170,038 acres, patented on June 20, 1795. Disclaimers reduced the area described in the declaration to about 150 acres. The principal issue of fact in the case was whether the land in controversy is within the boundaries of…