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High Court of Justice 1292 M. No. 4054
Matthew Marley (Plantiff) V. Lofthouse Colliery (Defendants)
Case: The plantiff owns a plot of land with houses on Lingwell Lane, Lofthouse Gate, near Wakefield, which have suffered subsidence from coal mining. The defendants are working mines and minerals under the plantiff's land and have wrongfully worked land under the plantiff's property and withdrawn support from it. The defendants refuse to stop working this area. The area of land is in the Manor of Wakefield and the owner of the coal rights under this area of land are the Earl and Countess of Yarborough.
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