Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Taylor

Opinion delivered October 27, 1873, by

WaliceR, J.

This bill in equity was presented at chambers on 1st October, 1873, and a special injunction was asked for, preliminary until hearing, and thereafter to restrain the defendants from permitting their old workings on Little Mine Run colliery to fill with water, until the plaintiffs can procure machinery of sufficient capacity to pump the same out of their own slope at the Bast Colliery.

The preleminary injunction was granted and the hearing fixed on October 7, 1873, at which time it was ably argued by counsel.

The injunction is asked to prevent the…