Karn & Hickson v. Rorer Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of hustings court of city of Roanoke rendered in the cause wherein G-. M. Bartholomew and others, creditors of the Rorer Iron campany, were complainants, and the said company and others were defendants. Earn & Hick-son, first-mortgage bondholders, brought the case here on appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a creditors’ suit in the hustings court of Roanoke City against the Rorer Iron company and others, for the appointment of a receiver, and to have the property of the defendant iron company subjected to the payment of its debts.
It appears that on the 25th day of January, 1883, the company executed a deed of trust on certain mineral lands; situate about six miles south of Roanoke City, which it had previously acquired by purchase, to secure the payment of ninety thousand dollars of bonds issued by the company. Subsequently the company…
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