Gibralter Coal Mining Company v. Cothran

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and plaintiff below, G-ibralter Coal Mining Company, operates a coal mine at Brownie, Muhlenberg county, Kentucky, and in connection with its plant it owns a number of mining houses for occupancy by its employes in conducting its business. At the time of the transaction here involved, and both prior and subsequent thereto, it was not operating its mine because of a strike on the part of the miners, and the time when the strike would be settled and operations resume .was unknoAvn. The tenant house involved here was vacant about the…