Flatt v. Barbers' Union

This case comes to us on direct appeal after a bearing on bill and answer. My construction of tbe pleadings differs materially from that of tbe majority view.

Tbe bill in this case alleges that tbe complainant Platt is a non-union barber and that for several months tbe defendant Union has been trying to force him to join tbe. local Barbers’ Union and raise tbe prices of bis bartering services but that be is not willing to do either one and has refused to do so; that last fall and winter tbe defendant Union had one and two pickets walking back and forth on tbe sidewalk in front of bis…