LEWIS v. HARCLIFF COAL COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 63-879.

237 F.Supp. 6 (1965)

John L. LEWIS, Henry C. Schmidt and Josephine Roche, as Trustees of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950, Plaintiffs, v. HARCLIFF COAL COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, and Harcliff Mining Company, Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

January 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plowman & Spiegel, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Theodore O. Struk, of Dickie, McCamey, Chilcote & Robinson, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.


DUMBAULD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are trustees of the Welfare and Retirement Fund of the United Mine Workers of America and sue for royalty claimed by reason of production of coal by defendants during the period October 1, 1957-September 30, 1963.

Defendants in their answer set up nineteen defenses. These restate in different forms defendants' basic contention, that when they signed the contracts giving rise to the royalties claimed the UMWA organizer knew...

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