Elkhorn Piney Coal Company v. Elvove

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Logan

Affirming.

There were two suits instituted against the appellant by appellee in the Floyd circuit court relating to the same subject-matter and involving the same character-of transactions. The cases have been consolidated, and the court will dispose of both cases in this one opinion without any attempt to consider the two cases separately.

Appellant is a coal mining company engaged in business at Weeksbury in Floyd -county. Appellee is a general merchant near by. The coal company, for the benefit of its employees, or itself, engaged in the practice of…