Beckwith v. Laing

Poffenbarger, Judge:

James Laing, holding a lease of certain coal lands, executed by S. Lewis Price and others, and purporting to vest an interest or mining rights in him, and desiring to sell and dispose of the same to Geo. S. Beckwith, trustee, entéred into a written contract with the latter, on the 14th day of March, 1906, which forms the basis of this suit. As the lease did not confer certain privileges and rights, desired by Beckwith, the contract just mentioned contemplated the procurement of certain alterations in it by Laing, and the consummation of the sale was made to depend somewhat…