Jackson Coal & Coke Co. v. Line
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeals from decrees of the Hustings Court of the city of Petersburg. Suit was brought by Eoper and Groner, trustees, against Phillips Line and Others, for the appointment of a receiver. From the ruling of the court on exceptions to a master’s report, two appeals were taken, one by the Jackson Coal and Coke Co. and Others, and the other by Seward & Eoper, creditors and stockholders.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
The appeal in each of these cases in taken from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Petersburg, entered therein on April 5,1911, ruling upon exceptions to a master commissioner’s report, filed in the chancery cause then pending under the style of Roper & Groner, Trustees, v. Phillips Line et als., and though separate and distinct questions are presented in each appeal, they were argued together, and will, therefore, be disposed of in this opinion.
The Phillips Line was organized as a corporation in 1908 for the purpose of taking over the property, fran*43chises, etc., of the Petersburg,…
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