United States Coal Co. v. Wayne Coal Co.

The plaintiff in this case seeks to enjoin the defendant from conducting certain min*2■ing operations which plaintiff claims work an injury to its property.

The plaintiff is engaged in mining coal by the process known as “underground mining”; the defendant is engaged in mining coal, but by a process entirely different from that used by the plaintiff company, known as the “stripping process.”

In 1900 one James Hubler and his wife executed and delivered to Robert E. Rhodes and Morris A. Bradley a warranty deed for all minable coal in what is known as the No. 8 or Pittsburg Vein of coal underlying…