Navios Corp. v. National Maritime Union of America

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

These appeals arise out of suits instituted by the plaintiffs seeking to enjoin the defendant unions and certain of their officers from picketing or in any other manner interfering with the unloading and servicing, at the Port of Philadelphia, of a ship flying a Liberian “flag of convenience.”

The matter first came before the court below on the plaintiffs’ motions for a preliminary injunction. After *327a full hearing, the learned chancellor refused a preliminary injunction and contemporaneously entered decrees nisi dismissing the complaints, to which exceptions…