State Ex Rel. Red Jacket Coal Corp. v. Stokes

Browning, President:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the relator, Red Jacket Coal Corporation, seeks to compel the respondent, State Compensation Commissioner, hereinafter referred to as Commissioner, to delete certain charges, allegedly unlawfully transferred by the Commissioner from the account of another subscriber to the Workmen’s Compensation Fund to relator’s account, and to not consider such charges in computing relator’s merit rating for the fiscal year 1955-1956.

The issue arose in the following manner: On May 18, 1953, relator purchased all standing timber on a tract of land…