Legal Opinion
Cole v. Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 26, 1963No. 8960PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.
In this action instituted in the District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the two original plaintiffs were (1) Western Pocahontas Cor*507poration and (2) Albert H. Cole, Fred Lindsey and Luther E. Woods, Trustees of the Cole & Crane Real Estate Trust, hereinafter referred to as Cole & Crane. Each plaintiff sought, respectively, to recover damages from Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, hereinafter referred to as Eastern, for a subterranean trespass and the wrongful mining and removal of coal from its land, and statutory penalties 1 for mining coal within…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lewey v. H. C. Fricke Coke Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Noonan v. PardeeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- Petrelli v. West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1920
- Knight v. Chesapeake Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1925
- Western Pocahontas Corp. v. Eastern Gas & Fuel AssociatesDistrict Court, S.D. West Virginia · 1963
3Cited by1 opinion
- Cole v. Eastern Gas and Fuel AssociatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963