Elizabeth Arden Sales Corp. v. Hawley

Plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the sale of cosmetics and in conducting a beauty salon. Another corporation closely affiliated with plaintiff manufactures cosmetics. For the purposes of this action these corporations will be regarded as a single entity. One of the ingredients used by plaintiff in the manufacture of certain cosmetics is a so-called carnation oil which it purchases from L. Sonneborn Sons, Inc. This company is currently involved in a labor dispute with defendant labor union. In the course of that dispute and as a tactical step in it defendant requested plaintiff not to…