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LAYNE v. INT'L BROTHERHOOD OF ELECT. WORKERS

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271 S.C. 346 (1978)

247 S.E.2d 346

Ruby LAYNE, Independent Executrix of the Estate of Howard Layne, Deceased, Respondent, v. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, (AFL-CIO), LOCAL NO. 382, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 31, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry L. Eubanks of Eubanks & Walden, Winston-Salem, N.C., for appellant.

Stephen T. Savitz and Julian H. Gignilliat, Columbia, and Daryll N. Love, J. Roy Weathersby and Anthony L. Cochran, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

August 31, 1978.

RHODES, Justice:

Prior to his death, the respondent's decedent (the plaintiff) brought the present action seeking actual and punitive damages from the defendant unions for what is alleged to be a "malicious, willful and wanton violation" of the South Carolina Right to Work Act, S.C. Code § 41-7-10 et seq. (1976).1 From an order of the lower court overruling...

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