Threlkeld v. Inglett
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson county; the Hon. Charles H. Miller, Judge, presiding. ' .
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
In the summer and fall of the year 1917 the appellants, George W. Threlkeld, William H. Green, L. C. Morgan and Jerome Mannen, procured from various owners options for the purchase of the coal, oil and gas underlying several thousand acres of land in the townships of Elk Prairie and Bald Hill, in Jefferson county. Their plan and effort were to secure options upon a connected body of land sufficient to justify some large coal corporation in taking over the property and mining rights if it was demonstrated by drilling there was coal of sufficient thickness and conditions for profitable mining.…
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