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JOHNSON v. PITTSBURGH CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY

311 S.W.2d 537 (1958)

Malvray JOHNSON et al., Appellants, v. PITTSBURGH CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 21, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. T. Hinton, Blaine H. Rutherford, L. D. May, Pikeville, for appellants.

Francis L. Rice, Pikeville, E. C. O'Rear, Allen Prewitt, Frankfort, W. G. Stathers, Clarksburg, W. Va., for appellee.

CAMMACK, Judge.

We are construing for the first time on appeal a writing which was used in 1890 by a Pennsylvanian, Richard M. Broas, to secure mineral rights to some 16,000 acres of land on Shelby Creek, in Pike County. The appellee, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, is now the owner of all rights granted to Broas and the appellants are some of the heirs or assigns of one of Broas' grantors. This appeal is from a judgment which held that the Broas writing conveyed...

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