Cowan v. Zimmerman

For some time prior to January, 1936, W. R. J. Zimmerman, trading as Virginia Anthracite Coal Company, had mined coal from three tracts of land located in Montgomery county, Virginia. One tract was owned by Zimmerman, another was under a lease from Robert N. Harper, and the third was under a lease from J. R. K. Cowan.

On February 6, 1936, C. A. Brown, a judgment creditor of Zimmerman, suing on behalf of himself and others, filed *19a bill in equity in the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Roanoke against Zimmerman alleging the latter’s insolvency, praying that the coal land owned by the…