Arkansas Anthracite Coal & Land Co. v. Stokes

FARIS, District Judge.

Appellee Mary A. Stokes brought this action in the District Court of the United States, against appellant Arkansas Anthracite Coal & Land Company (hereinafter called Coal Company, for brevity) and one J. K. Gearhart, as president thereof, for the alleged conversion of 480 shares of stock each of the Coal Company and of the Pennsylvania Mining Company. Subsequently, and before the trial, the Coal Company was put into the hands of one Denman, as receiver, and he was made a party defendant.

Originally, the action was on the law side, but upon the coming in of Fremont Stokes,…