Legal Opinion

Consolidated Coal Co. v. Schaefer

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided November 5, 1890PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker

This was forcible detainer, brought September 4, 1888, by Daniel Schaefer, appellee, against the appellant company, and wherein he recovered a judgment in the circuit court, which was afterwards affirmed in the Appellate Court.

Appellee, on April 2, 1885, made a coal lease to Newberry & Hammett, by which he demised to them all the coal under several tracts of land, and also three acres of surface for a coal shaft and necessary buildings. There was no description of the three acres, other than that they were on the north side of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad. It seems, however, that the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ottawa, Oswego & Fox River Valley R. R. v. McMathIllinois Supreme Court · 1878

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. West Chicago Street Railroad v. KruegerIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
  2. Chicago & State Line Railway Co. v. MinesIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
  3. Ames & Frost Co. v. StachurskiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1892
  4. Goodykoontz v. White Star Mining Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1923
  5. Brown v. BurkeAppellate Court of Illinois · 1909

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