Reed v. Beck
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polls Circuit Court. Plaintiff brought this action to recover the amount of three installments of rent, which he alleges are due him under a certain lease given by him to defendant.
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Appeal from Polls Circuit Court. Plaintiff brought this action to recover the amount of three installments of rent, which he alleges are due him under a certain lease given by him to defendant. He alleges in his petition that on the eighth day of December, 1882, he leased to defendant, for the period of twenty-live years, a certain forty-acre tract of land, for the purpose of mining coal from beneath the surface thereof; that, by the terms of said lease, (which was in writing.) defendant undertook to' work the mines on said premises to an extent necessary to make the rent thereof $500 per…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
By the terms of the lease, defendant acquired the exclusive right and privilege, for the term of twenty-five years from the date of its execution, “to dig, mine and remove and take away, all the coal in or under 'the surface ” of the premises described therein. He is also granted the right to sink a shaft in the most suitable place on the premises, and to dig and construct the necessary air shafts; also the use of three acres of ground on which to erect the buildings and fixtures necessary for carrying on the mine. He is also granted the use of a strip of land across the premises for a road…
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- Adams v. Washington Brick, Lime & Manufacturing Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1905
- Flynn v. White Breast Coal & Mining Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1887
- Gribben v. AtkinsonMichigan Supreme Court · 1887