Atlas Coal Co. v. Jones

— This is an equity suit brought by Atlas Coal Company, an Iowa corporation, against E. R. Berwick and Leslie Jones, two former officers and directors, and White City Coal Company, a corporation owned by them, involving certain coal contracts or leases which plaintiff alleges Berwick and Jones secured from plaintiff fraudulently, in bad faith and in violation of their fiduciary duties to plaintiff. Plaintiff prays said leases and a sublease or subcontract made thereunder and royalties secured therefrom be adjudicated to be held by defendants as trustees for plaintiff and be ordered assigned…