Strunk v. Lewis Coal Co.

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

This appeal results from the alleged violation of an injunction issued in a Morgan County labor dispute and prohibiting the defendants and others from engaging in violence and mass picketing against the plaintiff coal company. At the conclusion of the contempt hearing, the Chancellor found the defendants guilty by a preponderance of the evidence, and sentenced all but Russell to ten days in jail and fined them each $50.00. Russell was found guilty of multiple acts of contempt, sentenced to twenty days in the county jail, and fined $100.00. The Chancellor suspended…