Fordson Coal Co. v. Carter

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner—

Reversing.

In separate actions instituted "by Ancil Carter and Paul Carter against the Pordson Coal Company, a corporation, each has recovered judgment in the sum of $500 for alleged libel. The defendant is appealing.

The actions, based on the same writing, were consolidated and heard together below, the appeals have been prosecuted on the same record and will be treated in. one opinion.

The undisputed facts, in substance, are that prior to 1930 appellant operated a coal mine or mines at Banner Pork or Kentenia in Harlan county, but due to exhaustion of…