Lloyd v. Catlin Coal Co.

At the January term, 1902, of the circuit court of Vermilion county, appellant brought his suit at law against appellee in an action on the case, averring in his declaration that he was the owner of the surface of certain lands in that county and that appellee was the owner of the coal and mineral beneath the same, and that appellee had so mined said coal as to leave insufficient support for the surface of the land, in consequence of which appellant’s land had subsided and other portions were subsiding, to the damage of the plaintiff. The cause was heard and a judgment obtained by the…