Commonwealth v. Hatfield Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellee, Hatfield Coal Company, a corporation .engaged in the business of mining, shipping and selling coal, and having its chief office in the city of Covington, this state, was indicted in the Kenton circuit court by the grand jury of Kenton county for willfully, unlawfully and maliciously entering into a conspiracy, pool, trust, confederation, combination and understanding with divers other corporations and persons in Kenton county to fix and control the price of coal on the market, the of-fence charged being one denounced by section 3915,…