New York Court of Appeals

Louis Bossert, Copartners Under the Trade Name of Louis Bossert & Son, Respondents and Appellants, v…

October 9, 1917221 N.Y. 342

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals reversed the lower courts' injunction against the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, holding that the union's voluntary rules refusing to work with non‑union woodwork are lawful absent malice, fraud, or violence. Accordingly, the plaintiffs' complaint was dismissed with costs.