REINFORCE, INC., v. BIRNEY


308 N.Y. 164 (1954)

Reinforce, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Hugh Birney, as President of Local No. 46 N. Y. of the Wood, Wire & Metal Lathers' International Union, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 31, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert A. DuPont, Thomas D. Austin and Stephen J. Masse for appellants.

Harold Stern and George Rosling for respondents.

DYE, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ., concur with DESMOND, J.; VAN VOORHIS, J., dissents in an opinion in which LEWIS, Ch. J., and CONWAY, J., concur.


DESMOND, J.

Plaintiffs (Reinforce, Inc., a corporation organized to carry on a lathing business, and Foley, its principal officer and owner) were awarded money damages by a jury, on their complaint that defendant union and its members had maliciously conspired to prevent plaintiffs from carrying on their business and had put an end to such business operations by causing some of the union members to quit their...

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