Beausoleil v. United Furniture Workers of America

This is an action of case, alleging that in August and October 1963 the defendant union, and the individual defendants who like the plaintiff were members of the union, maliciously caused the plaintiff to be suspended from his employment with the Old Colony Furniture Company of Nashua, intending to cause him economic loss, and in fact doing so. As damages, the plaintiff seeks compensation lost during suspension to the date the employer ceased to do business, in June 1964.

The defendants removed the action to the United States District Court, alleging that it was an action for breach of an…