Blackard v. State

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

Each of the eleven petitioners seeks, by writ of certiorari, to have this Court quash the Chancery Court order which found each petitioner guilty of contempt and assessed punishment. The contempt proceedings were tried in a consolidated hearing in the Chancery Court; so the eleven petitions for certiorari have been consolidated in this Court.

The contempt proceedings spring from a labor dispute. When the Utah Construction Company (hereinafter called “Utah”) undertook to remove coal from its Ozark-Philpott Mine, a labor dispute arose as to whether the mine would be…