Franklin Fluorspar Company v. Hosick

Opinion of the Court by

Hobson, Commissioner

Beversing.

The Franklin Fluorspar Company brought this action against appellees on January 29, 1929, alleging that it was the owner of all the coal, minerals, and mining privileges in certain tracts of land acquired by mesne conveyances from Henry J. Trabue1, who acquired his title by virtue of a conveyance from W. B. Hosick on June 11, 1864, and that subsequent to that conveyance Hosick conveyed the residue of his title in the land to others, and by mesne conveyances this had come to the defendants, who refused to allow the plaintiffs to enter upon…