Continental Coal Co. v. Connellsville By-Product Coal Co.

Lively, Judge :

The appellants, the Connellsville- By-Product Company (hereinafter referred to as the By-Product Co.) and the Cochran Coal & Coke Company (referred to herein as the Coal & Coke Company), appeal from an injunction order prohibiting them from mining the seam of Pittsburgh coal underlying a part of 153 acres in Monongalia County, in such a way as to unnecessarily injure the appellee, the Continental Coal Company, and its employees, in the latter Company’s operation of the Sewickley vein of coal overlying the 153-acre tract just mentioned.

On the west side of the Monongahela River,…