Meehan v. Connell Anthracite Mining Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

State Line & Sullivan Railroad Company, — whose rights, so far as concerns this proceeding, are now vested in the appellant, the Bernice Land Corporation, — was the owner of a tract of coal land in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, which it leased on December 24, 1903, to William S. Connell and J. S. McAnnlty (whose rights are now vested in appellee) for a term of 99 years or until the exhaustion of all the merchantable coal in, upon or under the demised premises, but not sooner than the first day of May, 1934, with the sole and exclusive right to mine and remove…