Faust v. Heckler

Opinion by

Me. Justice Horace Stern,

As the court below properly held, plaintiffs are entitled to an accounting by defendant of the profits of the stripping operations conducted on the coal land owned by the parties as tenants in common.

In 1923 there was conveyed to B. F. Heckler and L. L. Faust, trading under the firm name of Heckler & Faust Coal Company, a certain seam of chai underlying a tract of 192 acres of land in Somerset County. The partnership carried on deep mining operations on this land for a period of ten years. In 1933 Heckler entered into an agreement to sell his half interest…