Wheeling Valley Coal Corp. v. Brady

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia (affirming a decision of the Referee in Bankruptcy) disallowing certain claims of the appellants for alleged obligations of a special bankruptcy receiver appointed by the District Court.

A brief chronology may help to make the whole situation clearer. In August, 1942, appellants leased to Warner Coal Corporation (hereinafter called Warner) certain coal mines formerly operated by appellants. On October 9, 1943, an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed…