Smothers v. Cosgrove-Meehan Coal Co.

Defendants in error, hereafter referred to as plaintiffs, in 1929 were trustees of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, in Williamson county. The church property consisted of about five acres of land, on which was situated a church building and a cemetery. The land was underlaid with coal. Plaintiff in error, hereafter designated as defendant, at the same time was the owner of a coal mine adjacent to the church premises, and in the course of its mining operations, entered the vein of coal beneath plaintiffs ’ property and mined therefrom a considerable quantity of coal. The trespass…