Clinchfield Coal Corp. v. Compton

Compton brought an action of trespass on the case against the Clinchfield Coal Corporation, alleging that *442he was the owner of twelve acres of land in Dickenson county, and that the coal company carelessly and negligently removed the coal underlying the land without leaving sufficient pillars and props to constitute the necessary subjacent support of the overlying surface, “thereby and by reason of which the overlying strata of rock became and was broken, and the overlying surface undermined and caved in, and by reason of which plaintiff’s springs and streams of water were suddenly drained and…