Taylor & McCoy Coal & Coke Co. v. Hartman

Citations

• 222 Pa. 172
• 70 A. 1001
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 673

Syllabus

<p>Mines and mining — Coal lease — Option to lease — Equity—Discovery.</p> <p>Where the .lessee of an upper vein of coal who has the option to purchase or lease a lower vein “on terms as favorable as may be offered bona fide by any other person or persons,” has defeated the consummation of a lease to another party, whose name with the terms offered had been furnished to him, by setting up a claim for the coal, he cannot thereafter when another offer is made to the owner, and the terms of the offer is communicated to him, compel the owner by bill in equity to reveal the name of the person who made the offer.</p>