Crown Coal & Tow Co. v. Thomas

Mr. Presiding Justice Creighton

deliveeed the OPINION OF THE COUET.

This was a suit in chancery commenced and prosecuted in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County by Edward L. Thomas against the Crown Coal and Tow Company, Bart S. Adams and John T. Taylor, and resulted in a decree for $6,309.89 in favor of Thomas. The Crown Coal and Tow Company bring the cause to this court by appeal.

In the year 1887 there was organized under the laws of the State of Illinois a corporation styled the Crown Coal Company, and in the month of March, 1893, appellee Thomas and the said Adams and Taylor owned all the…