Alter v. Bowman

Opinion delivered by

Walker, J.

The complainants in this bill ask the court for a special injunction to restrain the defendants from working the Buck Mountain-vein of coal on the property of the Delano Land Co.

The evidence shows that on the 1st of July, 1864, the Delano Land Company made a lease to Solomon Alter, Daniel Focht, and other complainants of “all the veins of coal which lie .between the veins leased to Oliver O. and Jonas Bowman, and those leased to Ruff & Lawton, and having a southern dip between the western line of the Daniel Hurley tract and the eastern line of the William Dewart…