Commonwealth v. Hatfield Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll —

Affirming.

The lower court sustained a general demurrer to the following petition in a penal action and the Commonwealth appeals:

"The plaintiff states that the defendant, the Hatfield Coal Company, is a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,' and authorized by its charter, among other things, to produce, buy and sell coal and that it does, under its said charter, buy and sell coal in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and in Kenton county and elsewhere. Plaintiff states that hitherto at a time unknown to this plaintiff or…