Pond Creek Pocahontas Co. v. Alexander

Riley, Judge:

Pond Creek Pocahontas Company, a corporation, and National Mine Service Company, a corporation, instituted this proceeding in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, against Arch J. Alexander, individually and as Chief of the Department of Mines of the State of West Virginia, Joseph J. Bierer, Acting Chief of the Department of Mines, E. L. Chatfield, inspector at large of the Department of Mines, and Elmer Farmer, mine inspector of the Department of Mines, for a declaratory judgment construing Section 18, Chapter 10, Acts of the Legislature, Regular .Session, 1915, as reenacted by…