Buckeye Coal Co. v. Goddard

Opinion and Order by

Judge Rogers,

The Buckeye Coal Company (“Company”) has appealed to this court from the decision of a commission appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Resources to examine into the matter of an appealed decision of a district mine inspector. The governing statute is the Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Mine Act, Act of July 17,1961, P. L. 659, 52 P.S. §701-101 et seq., Section 123 of which (52 P.S. §701-123) describes the procedures before our court as follows: “The mine inspector shall exercise sound discretion in the performance of his duties under the…