Elkhorn Coal Corporation v. Cuzzort

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

In an action at law instituted July 17,1923, by Gr. F. Cnzzort against the Elkhorn Coal Corporation in the Letcher circuit court, the former, September 9, 1924, recovered of the latter a judgment for $500.00- by way of damages, alleged in the petition to have been sustained by him because of its violation of a contract between them, previously made, whereby it had employed him to labor in its Letcher county coal mine for one year from the date of the contract in mining or digging the coal therefrom, for which work, as further alleged, it agreed to…