Patterson v. Silliman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was a bill in equity, in. which Frederick Patterson was the complainant, and Alexander Silliman respondent. On the 1st November, 1851, the Kentucky Bank, by its agent John C. Bullett, Esquire, leased to Frederick Patterson and Alexander Silliman the veins of coal known as the “ Tuscarora” mines, situated in Schuylkill county, for the term of twenty years from the date of the lease.
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Appeal from the Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was a bill in equity, in. which Frederick Patterson was the complainant, and Alexander Silliman respondent. On the 1st November, 1851, the Kentucky Bank, by its agent John C. Bullett, Esquire, leased to Frederick Patterson and Alexander Silliman the veins of coal known as the “ Tuscarora” mines, situated in Schuylkill county, for the term of twenty years from the date of the lease. The lessees agreed to mine and take out at least forty thousand tons of coal per annum during the continuance of the lease, and to pay twenty-five cents per…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Knox, J.
The bill sets forth that, on the 1st day of November, 1851, the Kentucky Bank granted a lease to the complainant, *310Frederick Patterson, and the respondent, Alexander Silliman, of four certain coal mines, in Schuylkill county, for the'period of twenty years, the lessees to raise and pay rent for at least forty thousand tons of coal yearly. That on the 31st day of March, 1852, they entered into a written agreement of copartnership for mining and selling coal from the land leased to them; and prosecuted the business of opening and preparing the…
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