Virginia Coal & Iron Co. v. Ison
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wise county, in an action of ejectment. Judgment for the defendants. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The plaintiff in error instituted its action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Wise county to recover the coal and certain other minerals in and under a tract of land, the title to the surface of which and possession thereof were in the defendants in error. Both parties claim under a common source of title, and neither party was required or attempted to trace title beyond Arch Hunsucker, their common, though not immediate grantor. The plaintiff derived its title to the mineral interest claimed by deed from Arch Hunsucker to Price and Steinman, dated December 9, 1874; by deed from Steinman…
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