Roddy v. Independent Oil & Chemical Workers Union of Louisiana

HALL, Judge.

This suit was originally instituted by plaintiffs on March 4, 1963 against the defendant Union for damages allegedly incurred by them as the result of the unlawful actions of defendant in barring their entrance into the Shell Oil Refinery in Norco, Louisiana, where they were employed. Trial of the suit resulted in a judgment in defendant’s favor dismissing plaintiffs’ action.

Plaintiffs took a devolutive appeal from this judgment and on December 6, 1965 this Court reversed the District Court on the question of liability and remanded the case “for the limited purpose of determining…