Zimbelman v. Boone Coal, Inc.

— On or about the 3d day of September, 1910, George H. Zimbelman and others, who were the owners of certain lands in Boone county, Iowa, entered into a written lease granting to the Zimbelman Coal Company of Boone County, Iowa, the right to remove coal from such lands for the period of twenty years. Under the terms of the lease the coal company had the possession and use of the shaft through which the coal was to be removed and of five acres of the surface land adjacent thereto, and agreed to pay a royalty of 10 cents on each ton of coal removed. It further provided that, if the royalties on…