Charles Cushman Co. v. Mackesy

On April 20, 1937, a temporary injunction was issued, and entered on the equity docket in Androscoggin, a member of the Supreme Judicial Court sitting singly, commanding the now exceptants, as well as other persons, defendants in suits consolidated and tried together, to desist from certain strike activities.

Within three days, the plaintiffs in the original causes, shoe manufacturers of Lewiston and Auburn, instituted the present contempt proceedings, alleging in substance, in complaints in the nature of pleadings, that the defendants had violated the injunction by continuing to aid and abet…