In re Woodside Coal Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. On motion by bankrupt to set aside adjudication and dismiss petition.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSOK, District Judge.
The bankrupt having moved to set aside the adjudication on the ground that a coal-mining company is not a corporation principally engaged in manufacturing, trading, .or mercantile pursuits (section 4, cl. “b,” Act 1898), the question was referred.to the referee, who decided in favor of the motion. The *57relevant facts are that the bankrupt is a Pennsylvania corporation, chartered for the purpose of “mining and quarrying coal and_ preparing and shipping the same to market,” and that its sole business has been the carrying out of this purpose. Upon these facts I am of…
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