Portsmouth Restaurant Ass'n v. Hotel & Restaurant Employees Alliance

Portsmouth Restaurant Association, Inc., on March 4, 1944, filed its bill in this proceeding against Hotel and Restaurant Employees Alliance, Local No. 807 of Portsmouth, Virginia. The sole question under review is the sufficiency of the bill to state a case for a declaratory judgment.

The bill alleged that plaintiff had a written contract with the defendant, dated February 23, 1943, in which it was agreed that members of the defendant Local No. 807, a labor union, would cause no strike or picketing while the contract remained in effect, that is, during the year ending February 23, 1944, a…