Martell v. White
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for an alleged conspiracy to injure the plaintiff in his business of quarrying and selling granite, carried on by him at Quincy. Writ dated March 9, 1899. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Bishop, J., who, at the conclusion of the evidence, ruled that the plaintiff could not recover, and ordered a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The evidence warranted the finding of the following facts, many of which were not in dispute. The plaintiff was engaged in a profitable business in quarrying granite and selling the same to granite workers in Quincy and vicinity. About January, 1899, his customers left him, and his business was ruined through the action of the defendants and their associates.
The defendants were all members of a voluntary association known as the Granite Manufacturers’ Association of Quincy, Massachusetts, and some of them were on the executive committee. The association was composed of “ such individuals,…
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