EMERALD C. & COKE CO. v. EQUITABLE GAS CO.


378 Pa. 591 (1954)

Emerald Coal and Coke Company v. Equitable Gas Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

September 27, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Eckert, with him John T. Brown, John G. Buchanan, Jr., Harry W. Fawcett, W. Robert Thompson, John E. Baily, R. Wallace Maxwell and Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, for appellant.

Earl F. Reed, with him Charles M. Thorp, Jr., William C. O'Neil, William D. Sutton, Frank J. Gaffney, Walter C. Montgomery and Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, for appellees.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ARNOLD, September 27, 1954:

This is a bill in equity brought by the plaintiffs to obtain injunctive and other equitable relief against the defendant-appellant Gas Company, because of its storage of natural gas in strata directly underlying portions of plaintiffs' active coal mining areas and mined-out or gob areas connected therewith. The gas is injected under pipe line pressure of 980 pounds per square...

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