Kinder v. LaSalle County Carbon Coal Co.

Appellees filed their amended bill in chancery against appellants and other defendants in the circuit court of LaSalle county, claiming they were owners of the surface of the land described in the bill, above the coal, and had the right to remove therefrom the sand, gravel, clay, shale and limestone; that defendants claimed title to the substances mentioned which were under the agricultural surface, and some of them had placed clouds on appellees’ title. The bill prayed the removal of the clouds and that the title to all the surface above the coal be decreed to be in appellees and their title…