Bates v. Georgia Fertilizer Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
From Davidson Appeal from tlie Chancery Court of Davidson County.— Hon. Jas. B. Newman, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hall
The appeal in this canse involves the correctness of the chancellor’s action in sustaining the demurrer of the defendant to complainant’s bill.
The bill was filed by- the cbmplainants, Douglas T. Bates, James A. Smiser, E. H. Ayres, and E. H. Ayres, Jr., to recover of the defendant, .Georgia Fertilizer Company, the profit royalties alleged to he due under a certain mining-lease contract by which the defendant obligated itself to mine a certain minimum quantity of phosphate and phosphate-bearing rock from a certain tract of land in Hickman county, Tenn., known as the “Well Field,” which land is…
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