GATLIFF COAL CO. v. LAWSON


247 S.W.2d 375 (1952)

GATLIFF COAL CO. et al. v. LAWSON et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleon K. Calvert, Pineville, T. E. Mahan, Glenn H. Stephens, Williamsburg, for appellants.

L. O. Siler, W. B. Early, Williamsburg, for appellees.


MOREMEN, Justice.

The appellees filed suit to quiet title to a 182 tract of land situate on Sang Branch on Bear Mountain, Whitley County. Many persons have attempted to appropriate this mountainous and remote land, and it has been the subject matter of several grants from the Commonwealth.

The first patents which contained a grant of the land here involved were issued to: (a) Carrington Jones in 1852; (b) Thomas E. Siler in 1856; and (c) Alfred L. Clapp in...

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