McLean County Coal Co. v. Long

This was trover, in the McLean circuit court, by John Long, plaintiff, and against the McLean County Coal Company, defendants, to recover damages for the conversion of a quantity of coals taken from the land of plaintiff.

There is no controversy about the fact of taking and converting the coals, the only question being as to the measure of damages.

The leading facts are, that defendants had in the summer of 1872 sunk and worked a shaft on their own land, three hundred and thirty-three feet west of the west boundary of plaintiff’s lots, to the depth of five hundred and forty-nine feet. At the…