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YOUNGS v. OLD BEN COAL CO.

No. 00-2190.

243 F.3d 387 (2001)

C. James YOUNGS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OLD BEN COAL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 15, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Lockyear, Lockyear & Kornblum, Evansville, IN, George W. Woodcock (argued), Woodcock, Kline & Kaid, Mt. Carmel, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

G. Daniel Kelley (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

C. James Youngs, the owner of a 400-acre tract of land on which the Old Ben Coal Company has strip-mining rights, brought this diversity suit (governed by Indiana law) against Old Ben for breach of contract, lost after a bench trial, and appeals. Old Ben had caused the four oil wells on the land to be plugged, and later, having removed all the surface coal, ceased its coal-mining activities. Youngs seeks specific performance of what it claims...

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