Northumberland County v. Gap Coal Co.

Fortney, P. J.,

This matter is before the court on defendants’ objections, first, to plaintiff’s interrogatories and, secondly, to plaintiff’s request for the production of certain documents for inspection or copying.

Plaintiff filed a complaint in equity in which it is averred the County of Northumberland, the owner of *779certain coal lands, through a former board of county commissioners, entered into a purported deep mining lease with Gap Coal Company, one of the defendants, on March 6, 1954, and a supplement thereto on November 4, 1955. This lease gave the coal company the right to mine and…