Savage v. Potter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry A. Potter, as treasurer, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New ■York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Yew York on the 22d day of October, 1913, denying the defendant’s motion to resettle the case on appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The action is in equity to restrain defendant from furnishing legal assistance to its members against sympathetic strikes on the ground that to do so was a violation of section 280 of the Penal Law (added by Laws of 1909, chap. 483, as amd. by Laws of 1911, chap. 317), forbidding corporations and voluntary associations to practice law.
At the trial the plaintiff called as his only witnesses some of the defendant’s officers. The defendant called no witnesses. The court, although it held that defendant had violated the law, refused injunctive relief on the ground that equity would not…
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