Gano-Moore Coal Mining Co. v. W. E. Deegans Coal Co.

Dowling, J.:

This action is brought to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract for the purchase by plaintiff from defendant of 8,000 tons of coal, at the agreed price of five dollars and ten cents per gross ton. A warrant of attachment against the property of the defendant in this State was issued upon the assigned ground “ that the said defendant, W. E. Deegans Coal Company, is a foreign corporation, to wit: a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of West Virginia.”

The affidavits upon which said warrant of attachment was issued were…