Hughes v. National Fuel Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

The plaintiffs, W. T. Hughes, Retta D. Hughes, Ernest H. Gilbert, Jr., Mary Gilbert, W. F. McKain, Hallie McKain, Alice Davis Trotter and James F. Trotter, instituted this chancery suit in the circuit court of Monongalia County against National Fuel Company, a corporation, defendant, for the purpose of abrogating an arbitration award unfavorable to the plaintiffs and in favor of the defendant, and, notwithstanding the award, to obtain a decretal judgment in favor of the plaintiffs against the defendant for an amount claimed on account of unmined coal. From a decree granting the…