Hetterman Bros. v. Powers
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 22 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND 'EQUITY DIVISION. 1. The plaintiffs do not come into court with clean hands, because they 'are members of an organization which was at the time engaged in boycotting ’the appellees, and parties so engaged iff an illegal proceeding will not be heard in equity. Nash v. Page, 80 Ky., 539; State v. Stuart, 59 Am. Reps., 710 and note; Sherry v. Perkins, 9 Am. State Reps., 689; Spies v. The People, 3 Am.
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Case 22 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND 'EQUITY DIVISION. 1. The plaintiffs do not come into court with clean hands, because they 'are members of an organization which was at the time engaged in boycotting ’the appellees, and parties so engaged iff an illegal proceeding will not be heard in equity. Nash v. Page, 80 Ky., 539; State v. Stuart, 59 Am. Reps., 710 and note; Sherry v. Perkins, 9 Am. State Reps., 689; Spies v. The People, 3 Am. State Reps., 486. 2. The label on its face shows, and the evidence confirms, that its purpose was to stigmatize and injure…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the opinion oe The coubt.
The appellants were manufacturers and dealers in cigars in Louisville, Ky., and without right or claim of right used on boxes of (cigars manufactured and sold by them the blue label of the Cigar Makers’ International Union of America, a fao simile of which is as follows:
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Thereupon appellees, Powers, Kieffer and Woppriee, suing for themselves and all their associates and fellow members in the Cigar Makers’ International Union and the Cigar Makers’Protective Union No.32, and joining these twoorgani-zations also as plaintiffs, brought this action…
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