Fordson Coal Co. v. Napier

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming..

This suit involves the title to a small tract of land in. Leslie county, which the Fordson Coal Company claims, is included in the Sizemore and Gibson 200-acre patent owned by it. The appellant filed an equity action in the Leslie circuit court against the appellees, and in its-petition averred that they were trespassing upon a portion of its land by wrongfully cutting timber therefrom, and it sought to enjoin them from continuing to do so- and to recover damages for the trespasses they had already committed. It also asked that it be adjudged to be…