Western Coal & Mining Co. v. Norvell
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Jackson county; the Hon, W. F. Ellis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
The Western Coal and Mining Company, which is appellant here, at the time of the occurrences with which this suit is concerned, was the owner of and operating a large coal mine in the Village of Bush in Williamson county, Illinois.
In carrying on its mining operations, it became possessed of several hundred miners’ houses and other' buildings at that place, and it also owned several thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Bush and Hurst, another village near by. On September 19, 1910, the mining company leased to James Norvell, the appellee, for 3 years, a portion of its lands for farming…
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