Home Creek Smokeless Coal Company v. Combs

Home Creek Smokeless Coal Company, Incorporated, appeals from a decree entered June 1, 1962, in three separate chancery suits brought against it, one by C. H. Combs and others, one by Lona O’Quin and others, and one by Roscoe McClanahan and others, all of which by agreement were heard together and decided by said decree. A fourth suit was also decided in the same decree but no appeal was taken therein.

The three suits involved in this appeal were brought to cancel two leases on coal lands in Buchanan county on the ground that Home Creek had not mined the coal or paid the royalties as required…