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BRYANT v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, U. M. W. OF AMERICA

Nos. 72-1075, 72-1153.

467 F.2d 1 (1972)

Anna Mae BRYANT etc., et al., Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, et al., Appellees. Della Sue RICE, etc., Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

September 26, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Allen Williams, Paducah, Ky., for appellants; Beard, Rummage & Kamuf, Owensboro, Ky., on brief.

Harrison Combs, Washington, D. C., for appellees; Edward L. Carey, Washington, D. C., Grant F. Knuckles, Pineville, Ky., Albert W. Spenard, Madisonville, Ky., James U. Smith, Jr., James M. Graves and Edw. H. Stopher, Boehl, Stopher, Graves & Deindoerfer, Louisville, Ky., on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and CELEBREZZE and KENT, Circuit Judges.

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

On August 8, 1968 an explosion rocked the Peabody Coal Company's River Queen Mine #1 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, killing nine miners. The explosion which took the lives of those men also precipitated a number of lawsuits; these appeals grow out of two of these suits.

After initiating procedures for such recovery as is permitted under Kentucky's Workmen's Compensation law, the representatives of the estates of eight of the dead...

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