State v. Duquesne Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County. Bill by the State of West Virginia against the Duquesne Coal Company, Rush Smith, trustee, and others, in which the first-named defendant filed a cross-bill against. Rush Smith, trustee, and others, and Rush- Smith, trustee, and others, filed cross-bill against the first-named defendant. From the decree rendered defendants Rush Smith and others appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
MilleR, Judge:
The State by her bill proceeded against the Duquesne Coal Company, a copartnership, and the individual members composing the same, and Edgar B. Rowe, Fairmont & Clarks-*431burg Coal Company, a corporation, and Rush Smith, Trustee, to sell for the benefit of the school fund, a tra&t of 102 acres and one of 5.82 acres, subject to a prior grant or lease of all the oil and gas with mining privileges, as delinquent, forfeited and sold to the State in 1912 for the taxes thereon for the year 1910.
The defendants comprising the several members of the Duquesne Coal Company intervened by…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- West Va. O. & O. L. Co. v. VinalWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1879
- Sturm v. FlemingWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
- Hansford v. Chesapeake Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
- Pethtel v. McCulloughWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1901
- Peters v. CaseWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1907
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Weldon v. CallisonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1937