Ambrosia Land Investments, LLC v. Peabody Coal Co.

I am pleased to join the excellent majority opinion and particularly its important outcome. The issue resolved here is of more than passing significance because, for all practical purposes, an opposite result would slam the door almost completely on claims for coal mine subsidence in Illinois. Coal mine subsidence is usually a long-term proposition. The subsidence alleged in this case took place forty years after operations at the St. Ellen mine had ceased. See also Tankersley v. Peabody Coal Co., 31 Ill.2d 496, 202 N.E.2d 498 (1964) (forty years); Nida v. American Rock Crusher Co., 253 Kan.…