Damron v. Shelby Creek Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Affirming.

This action was instituted in tbe court below by tbe appellee, Sbelby Creek Coal Company, a corporation engaged in tne business of mining, to quiet its title to a *797largo body of land lying on Caney creek, a tributary of Shelby creek, in Pike county, to a part of which appellants make claim tinder two patents issued by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the year 1909; the first purporting to grant to the appellant, L. T. Damron, an eight acre tract of land, and the second, to the appellant, Wheeler Damron, a forty-seven acre tract of land, both…