MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL, INCORPORATED v. WHITE


130 S.E.2d 452 (1963)

204 Va. 256

MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL, INCORPORATED v. Mary Preston WHITE et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

April 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Sutherland, Clintwood, Carl C. Gillespie, Tazewell (S. H. & George C. Sutherland, Clintwood, Gillespie & Gillespie, Tazewell, on the brief), for appellant.

H. Claude Pobst, Marjorie Coleman, Grundy (Pobst & Coleman, Grundy, on the brief), for Mary Preston White, et al.

Leslie M. Mullins, Norton, on the brief, for Riverside Coal Corporation, et al.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, JJ.


SPRATLEY, Justice.

This is a controversy over the ownership of an undivided one-third interest in the coal and minerals in, on and under 321.5 acres of land on New House Branch of Slate Creek in Buchanan county. Mountain Mission School, Incorporated, hereinafter referred to as appellant, claims ownership of the entire tract of land and minerals thereon; while Mary Preston White and ten other heirs-at-law of James L. White, and John A. Blakemore, devisee of John A...

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