United Mail Order, Warehouse & Retail Employees Union, Local 20 v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Montgomery Ward and Company, incorporated, hereinafter referred to as Ward’s, appeals from an adverse judgment in the sum of $327,000, entered in the municipal conrt of Chicago in a first-class suit in contract, predicated on a $1,000 injunction bond filed by Ward’s in tbe superior court of Cook county in a proceeding initiated in 1943.

Tbe original complaint filed by Ward’s on November 9, 1943 alleged tbat plaintiffs (who were defendants in tbat proceeding and will hereinafter be referred to as tbe union) bad conspired to libel and vilify Ward’s for tbe purpose of injuring its business and…