Huge v. Reid

MEMORANDUM OPINION IN LIEU OF FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

McFADDEN, Chief Judge.

This is an action for collection of contributions allegedly due from an employer to the trustees of an employee pension and benefit plan pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement. The collective bargaining agreement is the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement (“NBCWA”), the employer is Poe Coal Company, a partnership of Norman C. Reid and A. V. Keller (“Poe”), and the pension and benefit plan is the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (“the Funds”). Accordingly,…