Dixon v. Hesper Coal & Coke Co.

HatcheR, Judge:

The Hesper Coal and Coke Company was engaged in the business of mining coal in Upshur County. It owned in fee two small tracts and held under lease from the West Virginia Coal and Coke Company another large, one. It borrowed $16,500.00 in 1922 from the Bellaire Realty Mortgage Company, to secure which it attempted to execute a deed of trust on its property. On Oct. 31, 1923, it purported to convey all of its property both real and personal to the Mansfield Coal Corporation for $240,000.00, which corporation on the same day conveyed the property to O. L. McDonald, Trustee, to…