Coosaw Min. Co. v. Carolina Min. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
Bills by the Coosaw Mining Company against the Carolina Mining Company and others, and against the Farmers’ Mining Company and others.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.
The Coosaw Mining Company obtained from the general assembly of South Carolina the exclusive right of digging, mining, and removing phosphate rock from the bed of Coosaw river, in that state. Soon after the passage of this act, the question was agitated whether this privilege and right so granted to the Coosaw Company was limited in duration, or whether it should continue in perpetuo, so long as certain prescribed conditions were complied with. James Conner. Esq., attorney general, in a formal report to the general assembly, stated forcibly this question, as one…
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