Estate Property Corp. v. Hudson Coal Co.

Defendant moves for judgment on the pleadings. In the amended complaint three causes of action are alleged, although the first may be deemed to state two separate causes — one for loss of royalties by reason of defendant’s failure to operate a tract of coal land leased from plaintiff; the other for improper removal from the land of buildings and equipment. The second cause of action is for the conversion of coal in a certain culm bank. The third cause is for negligence due to the defendant’s mismanagement of mining operations, by which plaintiff suffered irretrievable injury in the loss of…