United Electric Coal Companies v. Keeper Coal Co.

The United Electric Coal Companies filed a bill in the circuit court of Vermilion county on July 29, 1927, against the Keefer Coal Company of Illinois, the object of which was to obtain an injunction against the declaration of a forfeiture of a certain lease of lands in Fulton county, Illinois, for the purpose of mining and removing the coal in and underlying such lands until the arbitrators to whom had been submitted a question in dispute as to the quantity of merchantable coal within the terms and meaning of the lease had rendered their finding in the premises and until the court should…