United States Steel Corp. v. Hoge

CERCONE, President Judge:

This is an appeal from the final decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County 1 dissolving a preliminary injunction against certain drilling operations, quieting title in coalbed gas 2 contained in a certain coal seam in favor of the surface owners (which coalbed gas was the object of the temporarily enjoined drilling), and permitting the surface owners and their gas lessee to drill into the coal seam and to extract the gas contained therein, subject to certain restrictions imposed by the chancellor to prevent damage to the coal owner’s interest in the coal.

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