Jetton-Dekle Lumber Co. v. Mather

Citations

• 53 Fla. 969

Syllabus

<p>1. A modification of a blanket injunction against striking members of a labor union that permits the union peaceably to enforce its rules against its members to the extent of expulsion of such as work as for those employing nonunion labor will not be disturbed on appeal.</p> <p>2. To constitute a conspiracy either the act conspired or the manner of its doing must be unlawful.</p> <p>3. Where a statute creating a crime is of' doubtful interpretation, it should be left to the criminal, court primarily for construction, before being applied by the chancery courts as the basis for injunction.</p> <p>4. A criminal statute denouncing a wrongful conspiracy to prevent persons from obtaining work or to procure their discharge will not be applied to the case of union laborers who strike in order to secure all the labor for themselves.</p> <p>5. The common law and early statutes of England as to conspiracies among laborers are not so consonant with the spirit of our government as to control us in the grant or the refusal to grant injunctions against laborers who refuse to- work.</p>