Flavelle v. Red Jacket Consolidated Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from. Circuit Court, Mingo County. Suit by John Dundas Flavelle and others against the Red Jacket Consolidated Coal & Coke Company and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and the named defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
Plaintiffs owned two tracts of land in Mingo County containing several seams of coal deposits, one of which known as the Upper Seam they leased to W. R. Hughes and Joseph S. Lipton November 1, 1897, “for coal mining and coal coking purposes only” for a period of twenty-seven years, or until all the workable coal of that seam is mined and removed from the leased premises. For the coal so mined and removed the lessees contracted to pay the lessors quarterly nine cents a ton of 2240 pounds, and for “slack” coal five cents a ton in the event only that the lessees find a market…
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