Russell v. Howe

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 591
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 126

Syllabus

<p>Mines — Iron ore — Title—Lease—Stoppage in transitu.</p> <p>Where iron ore is mined under a lease, the title to it vests absolutely as personal property in the lessee as soon as it is mined and removed from its original place, and it is immaterial as affecting the title that the lease was subsequently forfeited.</p> <p>Where iron ore is mined under a lease, and hauled to a wharf half a mile away on the lessor’s land where it was permitted to be stored under some arrangement between the lessor and the lessee, a purchaser of the land fifteen years thereafter cannot set up the right of stoppage in transitu as a ground for seizing the ore.</p>