Stonegap Colliery Co. v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wise county, in an action of trespass. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
*278This action of trespass was instituted by W. H. Hamilton against the Stonegap Colliery Company, a corporation, to recover damages to the amount of $5,000 alleged to have resulted from the mining and removal of the .coal under the plaintiff’s lands by the defendant, without leaving sufficient natural or artificial supports to prevent subsidence of the surface of the lands.
The declaration contains but one count, and plaintiff’s cause of action as set out is that, by reason of the alleged mining out of the coal in, under and upon two certain tracts of land, the surface of which was owned by the…
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- Williams v. HaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
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