SHOEMAKER v. LEHIGH VALLEY COAL CO.

No. 206.

16 Pa. D. & C. 2d 770 (1958)

Shoemaker v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co.

Common Pleas Court of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

July 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell Jenkins and Charles H. Minor, Jr., for plaintiff.

James P. Harris, for defendant.


PINOLA, J., July 22, 1958.

The problem posed in the case stated is one of interpretation of the language of a coal lease and certain letters.

The pertinent facts are as follows:

1. On October 25, 1882, Robert McD. Shoemaker entered into a coal lease with John Henry Swoyer, leasing to him all the coal underlying that part of Kingston Township, Luzerne County, which is now embraced by the Boroughs of Forty Fort and Swoyerville.

2. By various...

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