Hoskins Grocery Co. v. Creech Coal Co.

Opinion op the Coitbt bt

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Nancy Ellen Hoskins, doing business under the firm name and style of Hoskins Grocery Company, brought this action against the Creech Coal Company to recover $1,105, the amount of scrip, or miner’s, orders, issued by the coal company to its employees which she had taken in at her store in payment for merchandise. She alleged in her petition that the defendant was engaged in the business of mining coal and employed more than 20 laborers; that from time to time it had issued to its laborers,, as evidences of its. indebtedness to them, scrip, or metal…