Bentley v. Kentland Coal Coke Company

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The appellant, Y. R. Bentley, sued the appellees, Kentland Coal & Coke Company, Tildón Swinney, and the Barrowman Coal Corporation, alleging his ownership in fee of a certain 64% acres of land. He asserted his title came through conveyances back to the commonwealth, and charged that the defendants were setting up claims to the land and hack wrongfully entered upon it and taken possession; that their claims were casting a cloud upon his title which should be removed, and that their possession and enjoyment thereof were trespasses and a…