Legal Opinion

Marshall Field & Co. v. Becklenberg

Illinois Circuit Court

Decided July 6, 1905PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Bill for mandatory injunction in twelve eases in circuit court, Cook county. Five cases heard upon bill, answer and supporting affidavits, and seven cases heard upon general demurrers to the bill. Heard before Judge Jesse Holdom.

1Opinion of the Court

Holdom, J.:

t Complainant in this, and eleven other similar cases file-their several bills for a mandatory injunction against all the defendants to compel carriage and delivery of the goods and merchandise of the several complainants in the city of Chicago by the defendants on the ground that each and all of them are common carriers using wagons and horses as means of transportation in said city.

The controversies here arise out of industrial strife of which-this city seems to be the storm center.

In December, 1904, nineteen garment workers, employes of Montgomery Ward & Co., went out on a…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. In Re LennonSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Toledo, A. A. & N. M. Ry. Co. v. Pennsylvania Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio · 1893
  3. Vincent v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
  4. Inter-Ocean Publishing Co. v. Associated PressIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
  5. Fairbank v. StreeterIllinois Supreme Court · 1892

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Hastings Express Co. v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907

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