Angel v. Black Band Consolidated Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Action by Watt Angel against the Black Band Consolidated Coal Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MEREDITH, PRESIDENT:
Plaintiff recovered judgment for $300 in an action of trespass on the case for damages alleged to have been done by the company’s employees‘in evicting plaintiff and removing his house-hold goods and effects from one of its houses. Defendant assigns error.
Defendant operates a coal mining plant at Olcott, Kan-awha County. It owns and maintains there about ninety dwelling houses for the exclusive use of its employees. It does not rent them to nor permit them to be occupied by any one who is not an employee of the company. But its employees are not compelled to live in its…
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