West Virginia Northern R. v. United States ex rel. Kingwood Coal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia. The Kingwood Coal Company was a corporation engaged in the mining and shipping of coal in Preston county, W. Va., on the line of the West Virginia Northern Railroad Company, and the Irona Coal Company and the Atlantic Coal & Coke Company were also so engaged, the mines of the three companies being the only collieries so located and operated.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia. The Kingwood Coal Company was a corporation engaged in the mining and shipping of coal in Preston county, W. Va., on the line of the West Virginia Northern Railroad Company, and the Irona Coal Company and the Atlantic Coal & Coke Company were also so engaged, the mines of the three companies being the only collieries so located and operated. May 1, 1903, the Kingwood Coal Company, as relator, filed its petition in mandamus under the acts of Congress of February 4, 1887, c. 104, 24 Stat. 379 [U. S.…
1Opinion of the CourtFuller, Circuit Justice
(after stating the facts). Inasmuch as It appeared that the West Virginia Northern Railroad Company was not the owner of any of the cars used on its line for the transportation of coal, but that all such cars were furnished by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, over whose tracks the coal ultimately reached market, and that after the delivery of the cars to the West Virginia Northern Railroad Company they were distributed by it among the mines along its line, the question to be determined under the pleadings was stated in the careful opinion of Goff, Circuit Judge, returned as part of the…
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