Clayborn v. Camilla Red Ash Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Russell county. Decree for defendant. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit in equity brought by the appellants, W. F. Claybom and others, against the appellee, Camilla Red Ash Coal Company, for an injunction and accounting. The decree appealed from denied the relief sought.
The appellants are the owners in fee of a tract of land containing about eight acres, known as the Helton tract, except the coal thereon which belongs to the appellee under a deed made in 1887 conveying “all the coal on, in or under” the land, “with the right to mine and remove” the same. Adjoining this Helton tract on the west, the…
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