Kline v. Lawrence County Commissioners

Braham, P. J.,

This case is before the court upon a petition for declaratory judgment. Plaintiff is a purchaser of tax lands from the county commissioners at a sale divested of liens. He alleges a cloud on his title because of an outstanding estate in the minerals under the lands. The answer of Frances J. and Carl L. Schweikart sets up their claim of ownership to the coal underneath the lands. The answer of the county commissioners alleges that there was a reservation as to only part of the coal and that the tax sale divested the remainder. From the evidence we find the following

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