LAWS 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contract, Family Law, Capitalism
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Chapter 5: peevyhouse v. garland coal & mining co. Peevyhouse owned a farm containing coal deposits and leased the premises to garland coal & Mining co. for five years to mine the coal. The mining company specifically agreed to perform certain restorative and remedial work at the end of the lease period. All commitments were fulfilled by the defendants except for the remedial work . The jury was given the duty of choosing damages awarded based on a diminution of value of the land in question. The jury ruled that worth of damages would be rewarded when the plaintiff was suing for and the estimated diminution value from the plaintiff"s was approximately . With that being said, the farm was worth less than in total, so that was assumed to be the reasoning behind the jury"s decision. The mining company even admitted that it failed to perform its contractual duties.
