Report of the colliery cause Williamson v. Taylor and others, tried at the Northumberland Assizes, August 4, 1843, before Mr Justice Wightman; involving the question of whether the legal construction of the agreement, commonly called the pit bond, entered into between the owners of West Holywell Colliery, near Earsdon, and their workmen, enables the men to claim reasonable wages when the pit is laid off work