Federal Gas, Oil & Coal Co. v. Maynard

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

Federal Gas, Oil and Coal Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Maine, filed in the district court a bill in equity against the individual appellees, all citizens and residents of Kentucky, to quiet title and for adjudication of ownership in the corporation of the mineral rights to some 209 acres of land in Martin County, Kentucky. In their answers, the defendants included counterclaims to fee simple ownership of the land to the exclusion of the mineral rights claimed by appellant.

For twenty years, this mountain land case slept as soundly as Rip Van Winkle…