Muncey Coal Mining Co. v. Muncey

*640Opinion of ti-ie Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

So far as this appeal is concerned, the controversy between the parties hereto turns on the interpretation to be given certain clauses of a coal lease made by the appellee to one Stone, and which by successive assignments has come into the ownership of the appellant.

The first cause of controversy involves the tenth clause of that lease, which reads:

“The lessee agrees to enter upon the premises hereby leased, immediately, and begin in good faith the work of development and prosecute same with reasonable diligence,…