Torts Etc Cont Enticement Interference With Service Labor Unions Strikes Boycotts Arbitration Union Labels PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...S. 427. 25 L. T. N. S. 894, 20 Week. Rep. 309. And Lord Lindley, in Quinn v. Leathem 1901 A. C. 495, 1 B. R. C. 197, said: As to the plaintifi's rights: He had the ordinary rights of a British subject. He was at liberty to earn his own living in his own way, provided he did not violate some special law prohibiting him from so doing, and rovided he did not infringe the riglits of other people. This liberty involved liberty to deal with other persons who were willing to deal with him. This liberty is a right recognized by law; its correlative is the general duty of everyone not to prevent the free exercise of this liberty, except so far a.s his own liberty of action may justify him in so doing. But a person's liberty or right to deal with others is nugatory, unless they are at liberty to deal with him if they choose to do so. Any interference with their liberty to deal with him affects him. If such interference is justifiable in point of law, he has no redress. Again, if such interference is wrongful, the only person who can sue in respect of it is, as a rule, the person immediately affected by it; another who suffers by it has usually no redress; the damage to him is too remote, and it would be obviously practically impossible and highly inconvenient to give legal redress to all who suffered from such wrongs. But if the interference is wrongful and is intended to damage a third person, and he is damaged in fact, ---in other words, if he is wrongfully and intentionally struck at through others, and is thereby damnified, ----the whole aspect of the case is changed; the wrong done to others reaches him, his rights are infringed, although indirectly, and damage to him is not remote or unforeseen. but is the direct...