Legal Opinion

Ideal Manufacturing Co. v. Ludwig

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1907No. Docket No. 127PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Certiorari to Wayne; Brooke and Mandell, JJ. Bill by the Ideal Manufacturing Company against Martin Ludwig and others to enjoin an interference with complainant’s business: On petition, Martin Ludwig was adjudged guilty of contempt in violating the temporary injunction, and sentenced to imprisonment for ten days in the county jail.

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Certiorari to Wayne; Brooke and Mandell, JJ. Bill by the Ideal Manufacturing Company against Martin Ludwig and others to enjoin an interference with complainant’s business: On petition, Martin Ludwig was adjudged guilty of contempt in violating the temporary injunction, and sentenced to imprisonment for ten days in the county jail. The respondent was found guilty of contempt of court in violating the injunction which the court had issued in the case of the Ideal Manufacturing Company v. Martin Ludwig and others. The injunction restrained the respondent and others from: “ 1. In any manner…

1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.

(after stating the facts). The facts in this case are very similar to those in Beck v. Protective Union, 118 Mich. 497 (42 L. R. A. 407).

The complainant is carrying on a large manufacturing establishment, employing from 300 to 350 men. Among its workmen are those known as “metal polishers.” There is a union known as “ Metal Polishers’ Union No. 1,” of which respondent Ludwig was president. This union demanded of their employer that it discharge a workman because -he did not belong to the labor union. In other words, complainant claimed the right to employ its workmen without dictation from…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Beck v. Railway Teamsters' Protective UnionMichigan Supreme Court · 1898

3Cited by9 opinions

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  3. Baltic Mining Co. v. Houghton Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1913
  4. Schwartz v. Cigar Makers International UnionMichigan Supreme Court · 1922
  5. Nusbaum v. Retail Clerks' International Protective Ass'nAppellate Court of Illinois · 1922

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