Lockhart v. Moore

The original bill in this cause was filed by Mrs. May B. Lockhart against Charles C. Moore, the Hamilton National Bank, the New York Syndicate Corporation, the Freemont Coal Company, Thomas M. Lockhart (her husband), and W. C. Abernathy, trustee.

Mrs. Lockhart was formerly the owner of about 2,300 acres of coal lands in Grundy County, Tennessee, which she sold to the Juliana Coal Company for a net consideration of $83,000, for which it executed its notes secured by a deed of trust. She then organized the New York Syndicate Corporation, a Florida corporation, having all the capital stock issued…