Moran v. Leccony Smokeless Coal Co.

Fox, President:

The Piney Coking Coal Land Company prosecutes this appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, entered in this cause on the 8th day of August, 1941, by which the court denied to it, as part of the expenses of the receivership, a claim in the sum of $18,054.97 on account of rents and royalties accruing to it during the progress of the receivership of the Leccony Smokeless Coal Company, and in giving priority for tax claims to the United States of America and the State of West Virginia, to its prejudice.

The appellant’s claim is based on a lease for the mining of…