Watson Coal & Mining Co. v. Casteel

— In this action the appellee, as lessor, sued the appellant, as the assignee of the lessees in a certain mining lease, to recover certain rents or royalties alleged to be due and unpaid under said lease. The appellant’s demurrer to the appellee’s complaint, for the alleged insufficiency of the facts therein to constitute a cause of action, was overruled by the court, and to this ruling the appellant excepted. The trial of the cause by a jury, after the same had been put at issue, resulted in a verdict for the appellee, assessing his damages in the sum of fourteen hundred dollars; and the…