Hendrix v. McBeth

This was a suit by Eli Hendrix, executor of the last will of John Hendrix, deceased, against Robert McBeth, John McDowell, Major Collins and Joanna Hendi’ix.

The complaint stated that the decedent, in his lifetime, to wit, on the 20th day of May, 1873, entered into a writ*474ten agreement, known as a lease, with the defendant McBeth, by the terms of which he, the decedent, granted, demised and let to the said McBeth certain real estate therein described, for the sole purpose of digging, mining and removing coal therefrom for the period of twenty years from said date, and that, for all screened…