Webb v. Drake

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 290

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. when it appears that several persons have similar, or identical, grounds of complaint, and entertain like feelings of resentment, against another, and when, for the gratification of such feelings, they by their acts and utterances, endeavor to destroy his business, each being aware of the feelings and doings of the other and approving the results accomplished, there is sufficient evidence of a combination, or common purpose, and such persons are properly joined as defendants in an action in damages, and are liable in solido for punitory and exemplary, as well as actual, damages.</p> <p>2. When it becomes currently reported that a boycott has been established by the merchants of a town against a hotel, and that they will not buy from drummers who patronize such hotel, and such report is the natural conse-Quenoe of the acts and utterances of the defendants, in an action in damages brought by the hotel keeper, the existence of the report may be proved.</p>