King v. South Penn Oil Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

Plaintiffs complain of an adverse judgment in ejectment.

In 1902, George W. Stockley and Oliva D. Stockley, his wife, executed a power of attorney to George W. McClintic authorizing him to sell and convey for them a tract of 4,000 acres of land in Roane and Clay Counties, excepting, however, from said power of attorney all minerals in and underlying said land, together with specified mining rights. Later the same year, Judge McClintic, acting under said power, and conveyed a parcel of 102 acres of the Stockley lands to one L. S. Boggs. Minerals and mining rights were excepted.…