Martin v. High Splint Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirm. ing.

The appellees are three corporations and one individual. The business of some of them is that of mining coal from land in which such deposits are found; and some of them are engaged in extracting oil and gas where such deposits are found. Each of the plaintiffs owns in fee the mineral which they remove, or the entire land in which it is found and in some instances the right to prosecute such business is conferred by leases owned by them, whereby they acquired the priv- • ilege to make such explorations. They filed this declaratory judgment action…