Groves v. Terrace Mining Company

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Appellant has appealed from a judgment in the amount of $7,563.07. Jurisdiction is in this court because the appeal was taken prior to January 1, 1960. Gooch v. Avsco, Incorporated, Mo.Sup., 337 S.W.2d 245.

On August 15, 1946 Dall B. Groves and his mother, owners of a tract of land known as the Old Mines Place, executed a “Mining and Mineral Lease” to Terrace Mining Company “for the purpose of exploring for, mining, talcing out, and removing therefrom merchantable barytes ore,” with the right of the lessee “to make all excavations, openings, ditches, drains, roads, and…