United Factory Outlet, Inc. v. Jay's Stores, Inc.

(concurring) The majority opinion makes the law of the Commonwealth uncertain in an *40important area involving the power of courts to deal with violations of their decrees through civil contempt. For this reason, I cannot join in the opinion of the court, although I concur in the result reached in today’s decision.

The defendants, eight corporations charged with civil contempt for disobeying an. injunction, defend on the ground that their conduct was not a “wilful disobedience of the court’s decree” (emphasis supplied). As authority for their contention, they cite the case of Massachusetts…