Opinion

Hughes v. Kansas City Motion Picture MacHine Operators, Local No. 170

  • 282 Mo. 304
  • 221 S.W. 95
  • 1920 Mo. LEXIS 122
Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Filed
Apr 30, 1920
Status
Published
Author
Williamson
On the bench
Woodson, Graves, Williamson, Blair, Walker, Williams, Goode, William, Son
Cited by
18 cases

The opinion

*332

"WILLIAMSON, J.

concurring). — The decision of this case, under the facts shown by the record, lies in the answers to two questions of law: First, has a man a right to conduct a lawful business in a lawful way ? To ask that question is to answer it. Every man has that right. Second, have courts of equity po'wer, by injunction, to prevent forcible interference with a lawful business, lawfully conducted, when the method and degree of forcible interference constitute a continuing nuisance? The answer is that courts of equity now have that power, and have always had it.

I do not understand that either the majority opinion by Goode, J., or the concurring opinion by Graves, J., in any manner infringes upon the constitutional right of freedom of speech. I concur in both.

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