Compass Coal Co. v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Game Commission

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Petitioner, Compass Coal Company, Inc. (Compass), has filed a Petition for Review of an order of the Pennsylvania Board of Property (Board) declaring Compass, the assignee of the lessee of minerals reserved to the grantor in a deed conveying land was without right to strip mine the premises without the ‘consent of the grantee of the land, the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

By deed dated February 13, 1934, the Trustees of the Baker Run Reserve conveyed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, a tract of land containing 4,717…