Lehigh Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Kelly
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Yirginia by the Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company, as a corporation organized under the laws of the .Commonwealth óf Pennsylvania. Its object was to recover from the defendants, who are citizens of Yirginia, the possession of certain lands within the territorial jurisdiction of that court.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Yirginia by the Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company, as a corporation organized under the laws of the .Commonwealth óf Pennsylvania. Its object was to recover from the defendants, who are citizens of Yirginia, the possession of certain lands within the territorial jurisdiction of that court. The defendants pleaded not guilty of the trespass alleged, and also filed two pleas, upon which the plaintiff took issue.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Some of the paragraphs of the agreed statement of facts are so drawn as to leave in doubt the precise thought intended to be expressed in them. But it is clear that the individual stockholders and officers of the Yirginia corporation, in February, 1893, organized the Pennsylvania corporation; that immediately thereafter, on the 1st day' of March, 1893, the lands in controversy, which the Yirginia corporation had for many years claimed to own, and which, during all that period, were in the possession of and claimed by the present defendants, who are citizens of Yirginia, were conveyed by it in…
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