Carlson v. C. & C. Coal Co.

FORD, Chief Judge.

This is an action in ejectment. The plaintiffs seek to be adjudged the owners and entitled to the immediate possession of a tract of unenclosed mountain land located on the waters of Bullins or Trace Branch and Symses Fork, tributaries of Straight Creek in Bell County, Kentucky, which, according to the complaint, is valuable coal bearing land and which is and has been in the possession of the defendants for a number of years and from which the defendants are mining and removing valuable coal deposits as well as using it as a haulway through and over which to transport large…