Ware v. Woodward Iron Company

SIMPSON, Justice.

The question presented by this appeal, as we see it, is whether the plaintiff’s employment by Woodward Iron Co. under a collective bargaining agreement with plaintiff’s union, is such a contract as to allow suits for successive breaches, or whether it is of that class of agreements which allows only one cause of action for its breach.

Woodward Iron Company, appellee, had a collective bargaining agreement with the United Mine Workers, Local 12019, covering production and maintenance workers at *464its coke plant in Woodward, Alabama. Ware, appellant, was employed by Woodward and…