Clinchfield Stone Co. v. Stone

The petition of Clinchfield Stone Company, Inc., in this matter was filed to have the Chancery Court construe three consent final decrees entered on the 22d day of April, 1949, and modify the same so as to permit petitioner to operate its stone quarry underground.

The Stone Company was operating its quarry on leased land, and was engaged in the business of quarrying and selling stone. H. Gr. Stone and wife, feeling that the Stone Company was operating its quarry in an unlawful manner to their injury and damage, filed a suit in the Chancery Court at Kingsport, Tennessee, on September 11, 1947,…