STERN, J.
The dispute in these cases is between the owner of recoverable coal and of mining rights to the coal, and the owners of the surface land overlying that coal. Plaintiff seeks to obtain title or use of a strip of defendants' lands in order to construct a belt line to transport its coal, under the provisions of two 1906 deeds; defendants claim that the rights to use of the surface estates granted by those deeds are void.
The relevant provisions of the...
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