Coal Resources, Inc., No. 11 v. Gulf & Western Industries, Inc., s. 86-3824
| Decision Date | 31 May 1989 |
| Docket Number | 86-3825,Nos. 86-3824,s. 86-3824 |
| Citation | 877 F.2d 5 |
| Parties | COAL RESOURCES, INC., NO. 11 Coal and Construction, Inc. and Green Mountain Coal Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. GULF & WESTERN INDUSTRIES, INC., Virginia Met Coal Company, Inc., Jersey Kentucky Coal Company, Inc. and New Jersey Zinc Company, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
Prior report; 6th Civ., 865 F.2d 761.
ORDERBefore KENNEDY, RYAN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.
The Court having received a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc, and the petition having been circulated not only to the original panel members but also to all other active judges of this Court, and no judge of this Court having requested a vote on the suggestion for rehearing en banc, the petition for rehearing has been referred to the original hearing panel.
Appellee has requested rehearing on the grounds that the majority of the panel misapprehended that the determinative requirements of the leases required lessees, and G & W, through the assumption agreement to "work and develop the leased premises ... in the most diligent, effectual and workmanlike and proper manner, according to the approved and most suitable methods of modern mining." That is not, however, what the leases state. Rather they provide:
(a) The Lessee shall forthwith commence operations, and will continue from and after the commencing of operations hereunder, to work and develop the leased premises in a substantial and workmanlike manner with drifts, tunnels, slopes and other improvements and buildings necessary to mine and prepare the leased coal, and the Lessee shall work and mine the leased workable and merchantable coal in all the workable seams, except as herein provided, in the most diligent, effectual, workmanlike and proper manner, according to the approved and most suitable methods of modern mining, including strip and auger mining, in use in the district and in Wise County, Virginia, and will leave no leased workable and merchantable coal abandoned or neglected that can by such working be taken out, and will comply in every respect with existing or future laws of the United States, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, regulating the proper working of coal mines and looking to the safety of persons employed therein.
The Court did err however on page 18 of the slip opinion in stating the leases did not require the most diligent mining. It intended to state that the leases...
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