Hallam v. Alpha Coal Corp.

Kenna, Judge:

This is a summary proceeding lor contempt ancillary to a chancery cause styled John B. Hallam against Alpha Coal Corporation and others, in which the complainant was appointed special operating receiver for the defendant coal company, and employed contemnor, A. Blake Billingslea, as his attorney.

The ground upon which the charge rested was deliberately misleading the trial chancellor with respect to receivership funds, the material facts being the following:

The receiver, also a contemnor, was allowed two hundred dollars a month salary, and on January 20, 1938, Bil-lingslea was…