WORKINGMEN'S AMALGAMATED COUNCIL fl. UNITED STATES.
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WORKINGMEN'S AMALGAMATED COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS et at v. UNITED STATES.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. No. 143. CIRCUIT COURT OF ApPEALS JUNCTION.
June 13, 1893.)
REVIEW OF ORDER GRANTING. TEMPORARY
IN-
The circuit court of appeals will not reverse an Interlocutory order granting or continuing a temporary injunction unless it Is clearly shown that the same was improvidently granted, and is hurtful to the appellant.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In Equity. Suit by the United States against the Workingmen's Amalgamated Council of New Orleans, Ln., and others, to restrain the defendant.fJ, from interfering with interstate and foreign commerce. An order was made in tP-e court below granting a temporary injunction, (54 :Fed. Rep. 994,) and defendants appeal therefrom. Affirmed. M. Marks, (A. H. Leonard and Evans & Dunn, on the brief,) for appellants. F. B. Ear4art, for the United States. Before McCORMICK, Circuit Judge, and TOULMIN, District Judge. McCORMICK, Circuit Judge. November 10, 1892, the district attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana, acting under the direction of the attorney general, in the name of the United States, exhibited in the circuit court for said eastern district of Louisiana a bill for injunction under the act of congress to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopolies. 26 Stat. 209. The circuit court exercised just caution, and gave respondents ample time to show cause why the preliminary injunction sought should not be granted. Respondents improved the time thus allOWed them, and, in all the forms in use in such proceedingS; submitted matters of law and fact in opposition to the granting of the temporary injunction. The motion for the temporary injunction continued pending, and the hearing of it was adjourned from time to time until the 27th March, 1893, when the circuit court passed the decree granting the temporary injunction, as prayed. for in the bill, as to the appellants, and the respondents appealed. The appellants assign as error the overruling by the circuit court of each of the grounds of objection urged in that court against the granting of said injunction. These are well summarized, discussed, and disposed of in the very able opinion of the judge of the circuit court who passed the decree now sought to be reversed. The mat· ters of law presented to and considered by him were not well taken by the appellants, respondents below, and the circuit court's rul· ing ·to that effect was correct. The bill exhibited is clearly within the statute, and the pleadings of the respondents were not such as
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to require the refusal of the prayer for a temporary injunction. The volume of affidavits was large, and the conflict of this testimonyshllrpandemphatic, such as must, in the nature of:the on of ,different judges as to the facts shown. The summary of the proof made in the opinion. of the judge of the circUit court is fairly supported by the record, and shows that· there was proof tending'to support the allegatiQJm oJ the bill. The providing by law for an appeal from an interlocutory order granting an injunction certainly clothes the court Of appeals With the power and charges it with the duty of reviewing, ,and in a proper case reversing, the of the trial court in granting such injunctions; but as to issues of fact, presented as, they only can be presented in such. caSes, the findings or implied in the action of the trial court of the should ,Qe, ,given due weight, and its action, so far as it rests on, Or is affe;ctedl)y, the state of facts proved, should not be reversed unless it is ma,M clearly to appear that it Was improvident and hurtful to the appellant. In this case the most that can be urged against the order, having relation to the state of. the proof is that it was unnecesSarY. It only enjoined the appellants from doing, pending this suit, what the statute forbids and provides may be prevented by injunction. On this appeal from an interlocutory .order, which we affirm, we deem it unnecessary to anticipate the further progress and final hearing of this case by an expression of our views as to the full scope and sound construction of this recent and importaIl't· statute. The order of the circuit court is affirmed·
. , BARR v. PITTSBURGH PLATE-GLASS CO. et aL (Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. August 15, 1893,)
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CORl'(lltATIONB-DIRECTORS':"'INDEPENDENT BUSINESS.·
Dh'eewrs, who are also officers, of llmanufacturing corporation, If act· ing in. ppsitive good falthto 1he corporation and their co-stockholder.i, not precluded from engaging in the. building and operation of other distinct works in the same general business, (here. the manufacture of plateg!ass;) and they do not stand, In respect to said works, in any trust relation to the corp(lration. 51 Fed. Rep; affirmed. WITH DIREOTORS.
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A stockholder and a director of a plate-glass manufacturing company bUlltother plate-glass works: and at the solicitation of ot!her stockholders sold them to the company. 'rhey refused to state the cost of the works, and, the consolidation was ,made on the basis of capacity in production. This was ratified by unanimous vote at a stockholders' meeting, and no stockholder not present at such meeting ever objected thereto. ObjeCtion. was thereafter made by a stockholder who had been present, on the ground that the price paid for the new works had been ·excessive. Therenpon the former ownerlil of said works offered to rescind the sale, but ,a qommlttee a,ppoin.ted by the stockholders not Interested in said works reported adversely,1lJ,ereto, which report was ratified by7,Sm out of a total of 7,988 of wqh'dislriterested shares. Held, that a stockho1ders' . bill, relief on the ground of fraud In this tJ:ansaction,'shoUld be dismiS$ed. 51· Fed; .Rep. Il1lirmecL '