Hennecamp v. Valley Smokeless Coal Co.

Reed, P. J.,

Orphans’ Court, specially presiding,

The plaintiff above named brought an action in trespass against the defendant company, to the above number and term, for injuries which he alleged have been caused to his land in 1913 and 1914 by reason of the defendant company’s failure to properly support the surface. In addition to the actual damage to the land claimed by the plaintiff, he also sued for punitive and exemplary damages on the ground that the defendant company’s actions had been wantonly and wilfully done in disregard of the rights of the plaintiff, and that the mining under his…