Reed v. Consolidated Feldspar Corp.

This is an action to recover damages arising out of a mining lease. Plaintiff owns the mine and the defendant Consolidated Feldspar Corporation holds the lease. The other defendants are employed by the corporation.

On January 27, 1943, plaintiff and defendant corporation entered into a written lease of the Castlerock mining claim for a term of twenty-five years subject to the conditions therein stated. The lessee agreed to pay each month fifty cents per ton for all feldspar mined during the preceding month and also covenanted that all mining "would be done carefully and in a workmanlike…