Knight v. Chesapeake Coal Co.

Lively, President:

This is an action of debt instituted by W. W. Knight and J. R. Knight, plaintiffs, against the Chesapeake Coal Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover $2,000 damages for four encroachments upon their coal lands, in violation of sec. 7, chap. 79, Code 1923, which prohibits the owner or tenant of any land containing coal from excavating or working in any coal mine or shaft on such land, within five feet of the line dividing said land from that of another, without the written consent of every person interested in or having title to such adjoining lands; and which provides…