Whitt v. Stephens

MOREMEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Carter Circuit Court enjoining the appellants and associates from picketing appel-lee’s mine.

For some years appellee, George Stephens, had operated a coal mine on Little Fork Road in Carter County under the firm name of Moore Branch Coal Company. He had a union contract with Local Union No. 7762 of the United Mine Workers to which the national organization of the United Mine Workers of America was not a party. In March 1950, Stephens entered into a contract with the national U.M.W.A. whereby he agreed to pay a higher scale of wages. In…