In re Keystone Coal Co.

BUFFINGTON, District Judge.

Certain of its creditors filed a petition in bankruptcy, praying the Keystone Coal Company be adjudged bankrupt. By proper plea the company set up that it was not a “corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits,” and denied the jurisdiction of the court to adjudicate it bankrupt. Thereafter an order was made appointing the referee a commissioner to take testimony and report the facts and law. In pursuance of this reference, the commissioner took testimony, and filed a report^ in which he recommended, a…