Essex County News Co. v. Newark Morning Ledger Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

As between the News Company and the Ledger Company, the suit is for specific enforcement of a written contract whereby the Ledger Company employed the News Company, a newspaper distributing agency, to make distribution each day of its output for a specified territory, on a financial basis stipulated therein. Previous to the contract, the whole output, of which the contract covered a part, had been wrapped and addressed in, and sent out from the “mailing room” where the Ledger Company employed certain members of the Mailers’ Union No. 11, one…