United Aircraft Corporation v. International Assn. of MacHinists

These two appeals, which have been consolidated for presentation to this court, arise from a trial on remand in combined companion cases brought by the plaintiff, United Aircraft Corporation, against the four defendants, representatives of three different union organizational levels. The plaintiff had sought damages from the defendants, jointly and severally, in actions based on allegedly tortious acts committed in the course of illegal strikes at the plaintiff’s Pratt & Whitney Division plants in East Hartford and Manchester and at its Hamilton Standard Division plants in Windsor Locks and…