# Thompson Coal Co. v. Pike Coal Co.

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · June 1, 1979 · 488 Pa. 198

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9704588

## Case

- **Full name:** THOMPSON COAL COMPANY and Leroy Thompson, Appellants, v. PIKE COAL COMPANY, Ralph S. Thompson, Clearfield Bank and Trust Company, George Scott and Clifford Johnston, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** June 1, 1979
- **Citations:** 488 Pa. 198; 412 A.2d 466; 1979 Pa. LEXIS 600
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Larsen
- **Judges:** Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Nix, Manderino, Larsen
- **Cited by:** 575 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that “to hold that Ralph could have entered into an illegal agreement with the legal entity of which he was sole stockholder, director and officer would be without legal or rational basis. Summary judgment was therefore properly entered as to Ralph and Pike Coal on the…
- holding citizen-taxpayer had standing where case was of public significance and plaintiff was " ‘appropriate’ party to bring the case”
- finding that there was not a prospective business relationship where evidence showed that the parties had renewed a year-to-year lease for mineral rights for ten consecutive years
- noting that the intent to injure must be without justification, which cannot exist when an act is merely done “with the intention of causing temporal harm, without reference to one’s own lawful gain, or the lawful enjoyment of one’s own rights”

## Opinion text

LARSEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent; summary judgment should not have been granted. There are genuine issues of fact which should be resolved by a jury.

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