Colorado & Utah Coal Co. v. Harris

Plaintiee in error is hereinafter referred to as the Colorado Company or as plaintiff, and defendants in error as Harris, the Harris Company, the Grassy Company and Whittaker respectively, or as defendants.

This is a suit in equity brought by the Colorado Company to impress a trust upon certain coal lands standing in the names of defendants. To review a judgment against it plaintiff prosecutes this writ.

Harris was president of the Colorado Company from its organization in 1914 until 1927, and continued as a director for some two years thereafter. Whittaker was one of its employees. Its claim…