Legal Opinion
C. James Youngs v. Old Ben Coal Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 15, 2001No. 00-2190PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
C. James Youngs, the owner of a 400-acre tract of land on which the Old Ben Coal Company has strip-mining rights, brought this diversity suit (governed by Indiana law) against Old Ben for breach of contract, lost after a bench trial, and appeals. Old Ben had caused the four oil wells on the land to be plugged, and later, having removed all the surface coal, ceased its coal-mining activities. Youngs seeks specific performance of what it claims to be Old Ben’s contractual obligation to restore the oil wells once Old Ben ceased its mining activities. Whether Youngs has such…
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