Clarkson v. Garvey
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. J. Hugo Grimm, Judge. (1) Every member of Local Union No. 1 is liable in damages to any person who suffers loss through the enforcement of its -written or unwritten rules, which provide that no man can work as a roofer in any union shop in St. Louis, unless he is a member of their union or unless he is otherwise satisfactory to it.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. J. Hugo Grimm, Judge. (1) Every member of Local Union No. 1 is liable in damages to any person who suffers loss through the enforcement of its -written or unwritten rules, which provide that no man can work as a roofer in any union shop in St. Louis, unless he is a member of their union or unless he is otherwise satisfactory to it. Purington v. Hinchcliffe, 219 111. 159; Dor emus v. Hennessy, 176 111. 508; Eddy on Combinations, par. 368, 376, 380; Gfiblan v. National Amalgamated Laborers Union, 2 K. B. 600; Taff Yale Railway v. Amalgamated…
1Opinion of the CourtNortoni, J.
This is a suit for both actual and punitive damages said to have accrued to plaintiff through the wrongful conduct of defendants in coercing his discharge from service and causing the breach of certain contracts by another, to his detriment. Plaintiff recovered at the trial, but the court sustained defendants’ motions for a new trial and set the verdict aside. The appeal is prosecuted by plaintiff from the order of the court setting aside the verdict and granting defendants a new trial.
Plaintiff is a journéyman composition roofer by occupation and defendants are all members and officers of…
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