King v. Panther Lumber Co
Decision Date | 31 May 1898 |
Docket Number | No. 240,240 |
Citation | 43 L.Ed. 227,18 S.Ct. 573,171 U.S. 437 |
Parties | KING v. PANTHER LUMBER CO. et al |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Maynard F. Stiles, for appellant.
This was a suit in equity by the appellant, a citizen of New York, against the appellee, a corporation of West Virginia, and one Kroll, a citizen of the latter state. Its object was to obtain a decree enjoining the defendant from cutting and removing timber from a certain tract of land in West Virginia, of which the plaintiff, King, claimed to be the owner.
The defendant corporation denied the plaintiff's ownership of the land, and asserted title in itself.
The land in dispute is a part of a tract purporting to contain 500,000 acres, and which was patented in 1793 by the commonwealth of Virginia to Robert Morris, assignee of Wilson Cary Nicholas. It is the same patent which is referred to in the opinion in King v. Mullins (just decided) 18 Sup. Ct. 925.
It appeared from the pleadings and exhibits in the cause that the lands in controversy were not entered upon the proper land books for taxation, or charged with taxes, for any year from 1883 to 1895, inclusive.
The final order in the cause was in these words:
The controlling questions in this case are the same as those decided in the case of King v. Mullins. For the reasons therein given, the judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.
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