Young v. Southern Mica Co. of North Carolina, Inc.

First, tbe defendant insists that its motion for judgment as of nonsuit should have been allowed.

*648Here the defendant relies on the clause in the lease which provides that it shall not be liable to the plaintiffs “for any waste material dropped on their lands while in transit through the flume lines . . ; whereas the plaintiffs point to the provision in the lease which stipulates that the mining operations do not authorize the defendant “to dump waste” upon any of the lands of the plaintiffs.

This language is clear. “Drop” means “to fall like a drop”; whereas “dump” means “to deposit something…