Mercantile Commercial Bank v. Southwestern Indiana Coal Corp.

Action by appellant, as receiver of the Vulcan Coal Company, upon the demand of a stockholder in said company, to recover assets of it, which it had wrongfully and illegally attempted to transfer or convey to appellee Southwestern Indiana Coal Corporation and which said appellee had leased to appellee Enos Coal Mining Company.

The complaint in one paragraph is very long, covering, with its exhibits, 54 pages of the record. For the purposes of this decision, it may be epitomized as follows: Appellant, receiver, was duly appointed and authorized to bring this action; the Vulcan Coal Company is a…