Gillespie v. Pocahontas Coal & Coke Co.

BOYD, District Judge.

This is a bill in equity, originally filed by Joseph S. Gillespie (appellant here) against the Pocahontas Coal & Coke Company (appellee here) in the circuit court for the county of McDowell, W. Va. The case was subsequently removed, upon the petition of defendant, for trial, to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at. Bluefield. The plaintiff in his bill alleges that he is the owner in fee simple and in possession of a tract of land containing 58.8 acres in the county of McDowell aforesaid, and by his suit he seeks to remove a…