Associated Hat Manufacturers v. Baird-Unteidt Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover $5,000 as liquidated damages for the alleged violation of certain resolutions and orders of the plaintiff association—of which the defendant was a member—relative to the employment of labor in the hat factories connected with such association, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon a finding of facts, for the advice of this court.
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Action to recover $5,000 as liquidated damages for the alleged violation of certain resolutions and orders of the plaintiff association—of which the defendant was a member—relative to the employment of labor in the hat factories connected with such association, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon a finding of facts, for the advice of this court. The plaintiff is a non-stock corporation of the State of New York, comprising fifty-eight companies, corporations and. individuals engaged in the manufacture of fur-felt hats, with places of business in…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The defendant claims this action must fail, since the plaintiff association is, because of its organization and its by-laws, illegal, and therefore its resolution, whose violation is the basis of the action, was invalid. The foundation of this claim is threefold, because (1) the real purpose and object of the Association was to permit it to order a suspension of work by its members; (2) to make agreements relative to the use of the union label; and (3), because the members of the plaintiff were engaged in inter-state commerce, the Association was a violation of the Sherman Act, as its…
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- Bilz v. PowellSupreme Court of Colorado · 1911
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