Hurt's Guardian v. Crawford Coal Corporation

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

¥m. N. Hurt died shortly before the year 1918, leaving surviving him as his only heirs and distributees at law his widow, Sallie Hurt, and his daughter Ollie Mae Hurt, then an infant less than 9 years of age. At the time of his death it was thought that he owned the surface of two contiguous tracts of land, aggregating about 40 acres in area. The mineral rights under these tracts had been severed from the surface and sold long prior to his death. One of these tracts he had bought from his brothers and sisters. During the progress of the present…