Connors v. Connolly
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged conspiracy to secure the plaintiff’s discharge from employment, and to prevent him from working at his trade in the city of Danbury, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
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Action to recover damages for an alleged conspiracy to secure the plaintiff’s discharge from employment, and to prevent him from working at his trade in the city of Danbury, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff. The following facts appeared upon the trial and were undisputed:— The city of Danbury, in 1909, had a population of about twenty-three thousand. Its industries and those of its vicinity, including Bethel and New Milford, were almost entirely confined to the…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The defendants are charged with having been, through their action in wrongful combi nation, the cause of the plaintiff’s discharge from his employment for hire at his trade as a hat “maker.” The undisputed facts show that he was discharged, and that the discharge was the direct consequence of his having been dropped from the roll of membership of the defendant local union and from the national body to which it belonged, and of the existence of an agreement between that national body, representing the defendant union and its affiliated unions, and his employer, requiring his discharge if a…
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