Susquehanna Coal Co. v. Pratt & Young, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Judge. Suit in equity by Pratt & Young, Incorporated, and others against the Susquehanna Coal Company. Prom an interlocutory decree granting an injunction, defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree enjoining the appellant from maintaining its action at law against the appellee for the conversion of 45,600 tons of coal, part of a larger quantity of 93,756 tons alleged to have been converted by the A. H. Dollard Coal Sales Company and sold by it to the appellee.
The suit at law was brought in March, 1917. The appellee required formal proof that the coal purchased by it was a part of the lot converted by the Dollard Company. The case was consequently referred to an auditor, with the usual result of protracted hearings, past and prospective, in…
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