Hatcher v. Virginia Mining Company

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and plaintiff below, L. N. Hatcher, by his petition filed in the Floyd circuit court against appellees and defendants below, Virginia Mining Company and John Hunley, sought to quiet his title to the surface of a small parcel of land in that county containing about five or six acres lying in the junction of Beaver creek and one branch of the Big Sandy river in the same county. The sole question in the case is: Whether a coal mining lease that was executed on February 16, 1918, by J. W. Hatcher and wife and J. S. Hatcher and…