Gauley Coal Land Company v. O'DELL

Berry, Judge:

This is a suit in equity instituted in the Circuit Court of Nicholas County, West Virginia, by the appellees, plaintiffs below, Gauley Coal Land Company, a corporation, New Gauley Coal Corporation, a corporation, and Imperial Smokeless Coal Company, a corporation, against the appellants, defendants below, W. A. O’Dell, Anna Jane O’Dell, Loren W. O’Dell, Dayton O’Dell, Ada O’Dell Poling, J. W. Martin, and Harry Smith. The parties will be referred to hereinafter as plaintiffs and defendants, as designated in the trial court.

The plaintiffs, Gauley Coal Land Company and New Gauley…