McGuire v. Boyd Coal & Coke Co.

Appellee, E. B. McGuire, filed his bill in the circuit court of Randolph county against the appellants, the Boyd Coal and Coke Company and W. R. Borders, in which he sought a perpetual injunction restraining them from mining coal from the seams underlying certain land and for an accounting for coal already taken. A preliminary injunction was granted, which, after a hearing in open court, was made perpetual, and appellants were decreed to pay to appellee $10,634.65, being for 28,000 tons of coal at thirty-seven and one-half cents per ton, in addition to $134.65, the cost of a survey of the…