20TH CENTURY COAL COMPANY v. Taylor

CLAY, Commissioner.

This suit was originally brought to obtain an accounting from defendant. By amended petition plaintiff prayed that he be adjudged the owner of an undivided one-half interest in certain coal lands of defendant. The judgment decreed a partial accounting and also adjudged plaintiff an interest in the land.

The claim is founded upon an alleged oral agreement entered into with the president of the defendant corporation. Plaintiff was an engineer with some experience in the development of coal fields, particularly for strip mining purposes. For several years prior to the date of…