Rector v. Tazewell Coal & Iron Co.

Tazewell Coal & Iron Company, Inc., filed a bill in the court below alleging that S. J. Rector had died on March 8, 1940, while indebted to it in a stated sum, evidenced and secured by a vendor’s lien on certain real estate in Russell county, which the plaintiff had conveyed to him; that “said S. J. Rector owed many other debts of record which are liens on his real estate”; and that the plaintiff was bringing the suit “on behalf of itself and all other creditors who will come in and share the cost” thereof.

The only parties defendant to the bill were a number of persons alleged to be the…