Cups Coal Co., Inc. v. Tenn. River Pulp & Paper Co.

These appeals arise from two civil actions filed against Cups Coal Company, Inc., and Herman T. Mulvehill by two separate plaintiffs, the Tennessee River Pulp Paper Company and Helen Moss, alleging injury resulting from trespass to property and conversion of coal as a result of the defendants' stripmining operation.1 The two actions were consolidated for the purposes of trial, and, after a lengthy presentation of evidence before a jury, verdicts awarding both compensatory and punitive damages were returned against the defendants in both cases. The trial court subsequently entered judgments…