Hanson v. Hall

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Appeal from an order denying defendants’ alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

On June 30, 1936, there was a strike by the Independent Union of All Workers against the Gamble-Robinson Company in Austin. To prevent shipments from reaching that firm, the union detailed the three defendants to Lyle, 11 miles south from Austin, with instructions to stop and search all trucks which they thought might be transporting goods so consigned. They went to Lyle in defendant Gieger’s automobile and parked it, with lights dimmed, on a north-and-south street in that village.…