Finley v. Thomas

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Charles Finley and the Proctor Coal Company have' appealed from a $500 judgment recovered against them upon a contract alleged to have been made under the following circumstances:

On February 24, 1921, Michael Thomas, Daniel F. Thomas, and Sherrod Thomas (three of the four children of Aaron Thomas) sold to Aaron Perry their interest in a certain tract of land known as the “Abbott-tract, 5 ’ inherited from their father. The Proctor Coal Company claimed to own .this Abbott tract, and when,, on June 6, 1924, they sold the timber on their…