INDEPENDENT STAVE CO., INC. v. HIGDON

No. 60410.

572 S.W.2d 424 (1978)

INDEPENDENT STAVE COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Respondent, v. Ernest D. HIGDON et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Souders, Gruenberg, Souders & Levine, St. Louis, for appellants.

Donald W. Jones, Prewitt, Jones & Karchmer, Springfield, for respondent.

Gordon D. Gee, Kansas City, Leslie W. Bailey, Jr., National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Fairfax, Va., amicus curiae.


FINCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment permanently enjoining appellants from enforcing a "union security" provision1 of a collective bargaining agreement. The trial court held that said contract provision violates Mo.Const. art. I, § 2 which provides "that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the enjoyment of the gains of their own...

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