Cubbage v. Pittsburg Coal Co.

Citations

• 216 Pa. 411
• 65 A. 797
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 831

Syllabus

<p>Mines and mining — Deed—Extent of grant — Ventilating shaft.</p> <p>A grant of a- right to mine and carry away “said granted coal, and in so doing to exercise the usual and ordinary privileges of ventilation and drainage upon the land” of the grantor, “but in such a manner as to do no unnecessary injury thereto, with the right also to transport other coal through underground entries made or to be made in the hereinbefore granted coal,” coupled further with “a right of way for an inclined railway, the right to use one acre of land at or about the pit mouth, and the right to use land for siding and switches” along a railroad mentioned, does not include the right to sink a ventilating shaft in the land for the purpose of ventilating mines under adjoining lands.</p>