McLemore v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, ETC.

MERRILL, Justice.

Plaintiff McLemore sued the defendant Unions and one Michael Yolk, alleging that they prevented him from working at his job at the copper plant in Decatur, by means of unlawful picketing and committing an assault and battery on him. The jury awarded a verdict of $8,000. Defendants filed a motion for a new trial which was granted, and it is from that ruling that this appeal is taken.

In the language of the trial judge, “the pivotal question raised by the motion for a new trial is whether the arguments of one of plaintiff’s attorneys complained of, constituted such prejudicial…