Zink v. Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co.

RUARK, Presiding Judge.

This is defendants’ appeal from a judgment for plaintiffs based on a jury verdict in the sum of eight thousand dollars. . We will refer to the parties as designated below.

The petition combined in one count several possible causes of action in one conglomerate mass. Too lengthy to set forth verbatim, it charged that plaintiffs gave defendants’ assignors and privies two separate coal mining leases on two separate and distinct tracts of land, one of 180 acres, another of 240 acres; that in said leases defendants contracted to mine the land in a good and workmanlike manner;…