Valley Smokeless Coal Co. v. Manufacturers' Water Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

The Valley Coal & Stone Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, whose name was subsequently changed to the Valley Smokeless Coal Company, entered into an agreement, on February 16, 1907, with the Manufacturers’ Water Company, by which it granted not a fee but an easement with “the right and privilege to lay, maintain, operate, repair and remove a pipe line” over its coal land in Cambria County, within limits fixed by metes and bounds, subject to certain specified conditions. The entire line was 2,800 feet in length, of which three-fourths was placed within a tunnel,…