Lawson v. Williamson Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mingo County. Action by George W. Lawson and wife against the Williamson Coal & Coke Company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POFFENBARGER, JUDGE:
A judgment of the circuit court of Mingo county in favor of Geo. W. Lawson and wife against the Williamson Coal & Coke Company for $5,427.48, brought into this Court by a writ of error, involves questions concerning the right of a lessor in a coal lease to recover from the lessee, who has never taken actual possession of the leased premises, the minimum royalty provided for in the written lease and taxes on the land which the lessee bound himself to pay.'
In the petition for the writ, there are twenty-two assignments of error, all of which are insisted upon in the argument;…
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