Keefer Coal Co. v. United Electric Coal Companies

The plaintiff, ICeefer Coal Company of Illinois, a corporation, appealed from a judgment in assumpsit entered in the circuit court of Vermilion county in favor of the defendant appellee, the United Electric Coal Companies, a corporation, which judgment found the issues against the plaintiff under its amended declaration and in favor of the defendant in bar of suit upon a trial of said cause without a jury.

Plaintiff sought to recover the amount of certain annual and quarterly instalments of rents and royalties, and interest thereon in the sum of $163,419.20, alleged to be due and payable from…