Downes v. Bennett

Citations

• 63 Kan. 653
• 66 P. 623
• 55 L.R.A. 560
• 1901 Kan. LEXIS 201

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THB COURT.</p> <p>Injunctions — Parties Plaintiff — Boycotting — Condition Precedent. A voluntary association, formed for the mutual benefit of its members, in the business of buying and selling cattle on the market, adopted a rule, or by-law, prohibiting one another from dealing on the market, either with non-members engaged in the same business or with others who dealt with such non-members, and they enforced it by other rules, or by-laws, making its violation punishable by fine or expulsion from the association. PLeld, that because such rules, or by-laws, operated directly on the members of the association alone, and only indirectly and remotely on those outside of it, the latter did not have sufficient interest to maintain an action of injunction to restrain the association from the enforcement of the penal provisions in question.</p>