Stafford v. United Farm Workers

Opinion

KAUS, J.

United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (the union), defendant in a personal injury action tried to a jury, appeals from a judgment holding it liable for plaintiff’s injuries sustained in a traffic accident. The union contends that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a temporary restraining order directed against it. We conclude that the evidence should have been excluded and that the error in admitting it was prejudicial.

I

This case arises out of a three-car collision on September 19, 1974, before sunrise. Striking union farm workers were about to picket a tomato…