BLAIR v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA

No. 572.

211 F.Supp. 786 (1962)

Emmett BLAIR and Jack W. Blair t/a Blair-Elkhorn Mining Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA and United Mine Workers of America, District 30, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Kentucky, Pikeville Division.

November 2, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Combs, Jr., Whitesburg, Ky., Greear, Bowen, Mullins & Winston, by Fred B. Greear, Robert T. Winston, Jr., Norton, Va., for plaintiffs.

Harrison Combs, Washington, D. C., H. B. Noble, Hazard, Ky., John Y. Brown, Lexington, Ky., Thurman Hibbitts, J. Ervin Sanders, Pikeville, Ky., Grant F. Knuckles, Pineville, Ky., for defendants.


SWINFORD, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are coal operators in eastern Kentucky. They were the owners of a coal lease near Mayking in Letcher County. In 1958 they began the development of this particular coal lease by strip mining methods and were selling the coal produced to The Spreader Fuel Company, The Little Shepherd Coal Company, and to Roland Price at his Mayking ramp. The larger portion of the coal produced was sold to Roland Price.

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