Bayless Building Materials Co. v. Peerless Land Co.

Suits in disputes over gravel mining rights with appeals from decrees of the trial court in separate actions which were consolidated for trial. Defendant-appellant Peerless Land Company appeals from the decree of the trial court enjoining it from preventing or interfering with the exercise of certain mining rights found by the trial court to exist in plaintiff-respondent Bay-less Building Materials Company (hereinafter “Bayless”). Plaintiff-appellant State of Missouri appeals from the decree denying the State’s prayer for injunction requiring Pacific Aggregates, Inc., (a wholly-owned…