Shay v. Rinehart & Dennis Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

On writ of error awarded the defendants, there is attempted to be presented for review the action of the circuit court of Fayette County transferring certain law actions to Kanawha County for trial.

Sixty eases were transferred. About two hundred remain in Fayette. All are actions for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the respective plaintiffs on account of their contracting, through negligence of the defendants and their agents, the disease, silicosis, while they were employees of the defendant, Rinehart & Dennis Company, Inc., in the construction…