Bank v. Belington Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal front Circuit Court, Marion Comity. Bill by The Merchants & Mechanics Saving Bank of Grafton against the Belington Coal and Coke Company et als. Decree for defendants and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhorter, Judge:
A. Custer, doing business as A. Custer & Co., took options upon various tracts of land in Barbour and [Randolph Counties, aggregating about three thousand acres of coal and coal lands. The price to be paid was about twenty dollars an acre, of which ten per centum was to be paid in cash and the residue in three equal annual installments with interest. Said Custer succeeded in interesting I. Y. Johnson, J. N. B. Crim, J. E. Hall, A. G. Dayton, ■ William Watkins, George W. Hoover, W. W. Teter, Floyd Teter and C. F. Teter in said purchases. On the 26th day of January, 1892, said…
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