Bute v. Hamilton County

The board of county commissioners of Hamilton county, sitting as a board of equalization, was about to list for taxation purposes shares of stock in the Buckhannon River Coal Company, and the Finke Creek Coal & Coke Company, West Virginia corporations, then and prior thereto owned and in the possession of George C. Bute et al., residents of Hamilton county, when Bute, in behalf of himself and the others, interposed the following, which appears in his brief:

“In his petition, Mr. Bute, for himself and others, alleged that the Buckhannon River Coal Company is a corporation organized under the…