Catlin Coal Co. v. Lloyd

This was ejectment brought by the appellee, against the appellant company, to recover the coal and mineral underlying the east half of the south-east quarter of section 34, township 19, north, range 12, west, in Vermilion county, Illinois. The defendant filed a plea of not guilty, and the cause was submitted to the court without a jury. The declaration was amended so that it described and claimed only the undivided five-sixths of the said tract. The judgment of the court was, the appellee was the owner of and entitled to the possession of the property as described in the amended declaration.

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