Legal Opinion
Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. v. Laird
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 6, 1948No. 1541 Miscellaneous DocketPublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Horace Stern,
It is alleged that a State Mining Commission in Westmoreland County is threatening .to exercise a jurisdiction which it does not possess, and we are asked to issue a writ of prohibition to prevent such usurpation of judicial authority!' ’ '
In 1944 Carpentertown Coal and Coke Company, lessee from the Thaw Coke Trust of coal underlying the Pennsylvania Turnpike, caused a State Mining Commission to be convened under the provisions of the Act of July 3, 1941, P. L. 259, in order to determine what portion of the coal must be left in place to support the turnpike…
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