The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-12
BIC DAMAGES TO LOEWE & co. IN
 HATTERS' CASE
S24O 900 AWARDED TO UNION MANUFACTURERS AT DANBURY FOR INJURY TO TRADE
 BY BOYCOTT.
Second Trial of Case-Litfgation Has Lasted Ten Years-AppeaI Yet Possible to U. S. Supreme
 Court,

Hartford. Oct. 12-After a four hour session the jury in the matters boy colt case, which has been in the Uni ted States court over ten years and has been in it's second trial since last August 20, came in last evening with a verdict of $8O, GOO, which was the full sum asked by D. E. Loewe & Co, the independent hat manufacturers of Danbury who opposed Samuel Gompers and organized labor.
 As required by the anti-conspiracy clause of the Sherman law Judge James L. Martin of BrattIeboro, Vt, who has been hearing the second trial, trebled the amount to $240, 900, which with it's costs of $10,000, makes the biggest award ever granted by a Connecticut jury It goes beyond the award of the jury of December, 1909, which gave damages to Loewe of s74- 900 or $222,000 when trebled.
 Both sides the American Anti-Boy- colt Association and the American Federation of Labor, concede it to be the greatest case of capital versus la Dor ever tried out in an American court The verdict srstatns Loewe's may legally do they please with out interference on the part of the To- cal union leaders, the United Hatters of North America, or the American Federation of Labor, with which they are affiliated.
 It is undestood that the discussion the amount to be awarded and did not bear on the possibility of a refusal to make any award. It is said that one or two jurors thought nominal dama ges would be sufficient. There was general surprise when the fore man announced the limit of S80,OOO. In the closing sentences of his argument, chief counsel for Loewe, Daniel Daven- port, said that he was to blame for placing the com plaint figure at $50, 900, but that he never believed that the case would be more than two years in court when he drew the writ.
 Walter Gordon Merritt of New York city, also counsel for Loee, has been especially interested in the outcome the hat manufacturing business a, num- Der of years ago by union matters.
 Imn ediately after the jury had been thanked and excused John K. Beach of New Haven and Frank L. Mulho1- land of Toledo. the labor lawyer. nov ed that the verdict be set aside, and Martin the defendants were given un- til January 2, 1913, to file their appeal to the United States Supreme Court
 Of the original 24O defendants about bank accounts of the others remain under attachment. State Labor Com missioner Patrick H. Connolley of Danbury and Congressman Patrick Maher of New York city are among the defendants The boycott against the Loewe firm was especially success retail dealers were compelled to cease doing business with Loewe under threats of being placed on the Arner1- can Federation of Labor unfair list.
 For seven years the Loewe factory in Danbury was unionized, but in 1900 Dietrich E. Loewe, head of the con cern, declared he would have no in reference in conducting his business and when he refused to accede to union demands he experienced a. ruinous strike Later, when he got his fac tory running again with new hands, he began, to feel the power of the American Federation of Labor, espe- ciaI1y on the Pacific slope, and brought suit for $50, 600 under the Sherman law on August 30, 1902
 The case went to the Supreme Court at once for decision as to whether the Sherman anti-conspiracy clause ap- piled in the premises. After the 1909 jury had awarded $222, 900 and costs the Supreme court sent the case back for another trial because Judge James P1att had directed the jury to confine it's deliberations to what damages should be given, and also because the higher court believed each individual defendant should be placed on the witt ness stand Several hundred excep- tions have been noted in the present trial upon which to base another ap- peal to the Supreme Court.