Reitz, Receiver v. Nowlin

Appellees were laborers, some thirty-three of them, engaged in mining coal for the Queen Excelsior Coal Corporation, at the time it ceased to operate on March 4, 1936. Said company failed to pay the laborers and they brought this suit to recover the respective amounts due them and sought to enforce a laborer’s lien on the property by attachment proceedings. All the property used in and about the mine including one inside hoist and one C. H. 8 Sullivan long wall machine was seized by the sheriff under the writ of attachment sued out by appellees.

The receiver of the Blue Ribbon Corporation…