United States Coal Co. v. Pinkerton

LURTON, Circuit Judge.

This was an action to recover a balance of $10,038.87, claimed to be due to the defendants in error, who did business as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, by the United States Coal Company, a coal mining corporation of the state of Ohio, for services rendered and money advanced at its instance and request. The defense was that the coal company was not the debtor, but that the Pinkerton Agency advanced the money and rendered the services mentioned at the instance of a committee composed of representatives of a number of coal mining companies, and that the coal…