McIntire v. Westmoreland Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OP WESTMORELAND COUNTY. No. 216 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 861 August Term 1885, C. P. On August 25,1885, an action on the case was instituted by Samuel P. Mclntire and Jane Mclntire against the Westmoreland Coal Company, wherein a narr. was filed on November 7,1885, in which it was averred that S. P. Mclntire was the owner in fee of a lot of ground in Jacksonville, a village in North Huntingdon township, and that Jane…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OP COMMON PLEAS OP WESTMORELAND COUNTY. No. 216 October Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 861 August Term 1885, C. P. On August 25,1885, an action on the case was instituted by Samuel P. Mclntire and Jane Mclntire against the Westmoreland Coal Company, wherein a narr. was filed on November 7,1885, in which it was averred that S. P. Mclntire was the owner in fee of a lot of ground in Jacksonville, a village in North Huntingdon township, and that Jane Mclntire had the use of said property during her lifetime; that upon said lot the plaintiffs had a hotel property,…
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Opinion,
Me. Justice Paxson:
This was a joint action on the case brought in the court below by Samuel P. Mclntire and Jane Mclntire against the Westmoreland Coal Company. The plaintiffs were the owners •of a piece of land, of about half an acre, in Westmoreland county, upon which were erected a hotel and other buildings. The surface of said land was underlaid with a valuable vein of coal. It is alleged that the defendant company owned all the land surrounding the lot of the plaintiffs, and, in the course of its mining operations, had mined and taken away all the coal beneath the surface; that…
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