Citizens National Bank of Connellsville v. Harrison-Doddridge Coal & Coke Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County. Suit by tbe Citizens’ National Bank of Connellsville and others against tbe Harrison-Doddridge Coal & Coke Company, tbe Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and last-named defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, Judge:
The decree complained of on this appeal determines questions of priority between the Citizens National Bank of Connellsville, assignee of notes secured by a deed of trust and also of an interest in a mortgage, on the one hand, and the Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh, a subsequent mortgagee of the same property on which the assigned debts were secured, on the other, in favor of the bank and cancels releases of the deed of trust and prior mortgage, executed by the original creditor.
The property involved is about 30,000 acres of coal made up of numerous small tracts…
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