Block Coal & Coke Corp. v. Case

This appeal presents a suit brought in the Chancery Court of Davidson County by Complainants, Block Coal & Coke Corporation, and various other coal mining corporations constituting the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators’ Association, against James L. Case, Commissioner of Labor of the State of Tennessee, J. A. Welch, as Chief Mine Inspector, and Roy IT. Beeler, as Attorney General. The bill was filed under the Declaratory Judgments statute as an assault upon Chapter 245, Public Acts of 1951, on the allegation that that statute, in’ certain of its aspects violated Section 17 of Art. II of the…