Hoffstot v. Dickinson

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree for defendants in a suit for specific performance of an alleged contract for the conveyance of coal lands, or in the alternative to recover damages for breach of the contract. Plaintiff is one J. G. Hoffstot, a coal operator. Defendants are John. L. Dickinson, J. N. Berthy, Jr. and T. J. Blair, owners of certain coal lands in Nicholas County, West Virginia, the wives of these defendants, and the Muddlety Coal Land Company, a corporation the entire stock of which they had owned and which had conveyed to them title to the lands…