Piper v. Laughman
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
No. 87 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No, 427 September Term 1884, C. P. No. 3, in Equity. To the number and term of the court below, William H. Piper and John H. Lewars, trading as W. PI. Piper & Go., filed a bill in equity against Daniel Laughman and J. Chester Wilson, trading as D. Laughman & Co., averring-: That in 1874, W. PI.
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No. 87 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No, 427 September Term 1884, C. P. No. 3, in Equity. To the number and term of the court below, William H. Piper and John H. Lewars, trading as W. PI. Piper & Go., filed a bill in equity against Daniel Laughman and J. Chester Wilson, trading as D. Laughman & Co., averring-: That in 1874, W. PI. Piper, one of the plaintiffs, became associated with James H. Dysart and Daniel Laughman, one of the defendants, under the firm name of Dysart & Co., in carrying on the business of mining and shipping coal upon a tract of land in Cambria county, Pa.,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
The plaintiffs, W. H. Piper & Co., are miners and shippers of bituminous coal in Cambria county. They are engaged in mining what is known on the geological maps of the state as the Miller vein, at Ben’s creek, on the western slope of the Allegheny mountains; their mines are located upon what was sometimes called the Big Survey, containing an area of about ten square miles, or over six thousand acres. This large body of land, it is said, was conveyed by William Penn directly to one Arent Sonman, and hence has been generally known as 'the Sonman survey. From the…
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