Commonwealth v. Griesing

Valentine, P. J.,

Defendants, Herbert C. Griesing, James C. Gardiner and Charles Neyhard, are, respectively, superintendent, mine foreman and assistant mine foreman of the Henry Colliery, owned and operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, and were such on August 2, 1945, on which date an explosion occurred at the face of chamber 23 in the Upper Baltimore vein of the mine connected with said colliery.

Defendants are charged with having violated certain mandatory provisions of the Anthracite Mine Act of June 2, 1891, P. L. 176,>52 PS §71, and under section 1, article XVII of said act, it…