Abney-Barnes Co. v. Davy-Pocahontas Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, McDowell County. Representative suit by Abney-Barnes Company and others to enforce certain judgment liens against Davy-Pocahontas Coal Company, "W. L. Taylor, and another,.and the Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company of Baltimore and the Equitable Trust Company, consolidated with suit by A. G-. Russell, Jr., against W. L. Taylor.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, McDowell County. Representative suit by Abney-Barnes Company and others to enforce certain judgment liens against Davy-Pocahontas Coal Company, "W. L. Taylor, and another,.and the Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company of Baltimore and the Equitable Trust Company, consolidated with suit by A. G-. Russell, Jr., against W. L. Taylor. Case referred to a commissioner to report an account, and exceptions to report by Davy-Pocahontas Coal Company and "W". L. Taylor, and answers by the Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company and the Equitable Trust Company seeking the foreclosure…
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
Abney-Barnes Company, a corporation, and others, who sue on behalf of themselves and all other lien creditors of Davy-Pocahontas Coal Company, obtained the decree from which Davy-Pocahontas Coal Company and W. L. Taylor have appealed. The decree ascertained the corporate property of the defendant coal company and the amount and priority of the liens chargeable thereto, and directed it to be sold to satisfy and discharge the liens reported by the commissioner to whom the cause was twice referred. The property consists of about 4,000 acres of valuable coal land in McDowell County…
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