Cougar Min. Co. v. MINERAL LAND & MIN. CONSULT. INC.

In May of 1978, Appellant Cougar Mining Company procured the services of Appellee Mineral Land and Mining Consultants, Inc. (MLMC), to perform drilling operations upon land on which Cougar Mining Company was mining coal. All such operations were performed solely by individuals employed by MLMC, and continued from May until September or October of 1978.

Sometime in August of 1978, Cougar Mining began questioning the legitimacy of MLMC's billing procedures. Cougar's specific contentions were that the invoices and drill logs of MLMC, from which Cougar was billed, did not accurately depict those…