MITCHELL/ROBERTS v. WILLIAMSON ENERGY

NO. 5-19-0339.

164 N.E.3d 77 (2020)

2020 IL App (5th) 190339

MITCHELL/ROBERTS PARTNERSHIP, an Illinois General Partnership; Reba L. Mitchell, Trustee and Beneficiary of the Robert H. Mitchell Residual Trust; Carl Inman, Independent Executor of the Estate of Russell J. Inman, Deceased; Carol Dean Crabtree; Robin Lynne Kee Williams; John Milo Kee; Nelda Baldwin, Personal Representative of the Estate of Beverly B. Adams, Deceased; Nelda Baldwin, Personal Representative of the Estate of Katherine Baldwin, Deceased; and David Senseney, Executor of the Estate of Margueritte Boos, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WILLIAMSON ENERGY, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Colt, LLC, a West Virginia Limited Liability Company, Independence Land Company, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, and WPP, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Paula Newcomb, Vince Sneed, Robert C. Wilson, Christie Brown, Joni Miller, and Fannie Miller, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Motion to publish granted September 8, 2020.

Opinion Filed: September 8, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. William Bonan , of Bonan, Bonan & Rowland, LLC, of McLeansboro, Mark S. Johnson , Matthew B. Ferrell , Mark H. Clarke , and John R. Schneider , of Johnson, Schneider & Ferrell, LLC, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and George E. Stigger (pro hac vice), of St. Marys, Georgia, for appellants.

John E. Rhine , of Bingham, Greenebaum, Doll, LLP, of Evansville, Indiana, and Brandon McGrath , of Bingham, Greenebaum, Doll, LLP, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellees Independence Land Company, LLC, and WPP, LLC.

G. Patrick Murphy and Patricia S. Murphy , of Murphy & Murphy, LLC, of Marion, Brian A. Glasser , of Bailey & Glasser, LLP, of Charleston, West Virginia, and Jeffrey R. Baron , of Clayton, Missouri, for appellees Williamson Energy, LLC, and Colt, LLC.

No brief filed for other appellees.

C. Michael Witters , of Mt. Carmel, for amicus curiae Illinois Coal Association.


OPINION

¶ 1 The plaintiffs, Mitchell/Roberts Partnership (Mitchell/Roberts), an Illinois general partnership; Reba L. Mitchell, trustee and beneficiary of the Robert H. Mitchell Residual Trust; Carl Inman, independent executor of the estate of Russell J. Inman,...

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