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

> Supreme Court of Missouri · April 30, 1920 · 282 Mo. 304

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3532100

## Case

- **Full name:** JOHN E. HUGHES Et Al., Partners Doing Business Under Name of Eastern Theater, Appellants, v. KANSAS CITY MOTION PICTURE MACHINE OPERATORS, LOCAL NO. 170, Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** April 30, 1920
- **Citations:** 282 Mo. 304; 221 S.W. 95; 1920 Mo. LEXIS 122
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Williamson
- **Judges:** Woodson, Graves, Williamson, Blair, Walker, Williams, Goode, William, Son
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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"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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