Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Van Deusen

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and *870the Fulton Coal Company from a decree of the District 'Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. On September 15, 1932 the' appellants and the Northumberland Mining Company, hereinafter called the debtor, entered 'into an agreement whereby the debtor was given the exclusive privilege of mining coal from certain veins of coal within described parcels of land owned by the appellants in consideration of the payment of royalties and taxes. On June 2, 1933 and again on November 3, 1934 the…