State Ex Rel. Continental Coal Co. v. Bittner

Lively, Judge:

This writ is to review the judgment and sentence of the circuit court pronounced on the 11th day of June, 1925, in which Van A. Bittner, plaintiff in error, was adjudged to be in contempt of the court in that he did not perform or obey an injunction lawfully issued by that court. He was fined $500.00 and costs, and ordered to be confined in jail for six months.

In the early part of 1925 a strike of the United Mine Workers was in progress. Van A. Bittner as chief representative of the United Mine Workers of America in Northern West Virginia, had issued an official call for the…