Courts — Jurisdiction — Equity — Injunction against administrative agency — Inadequacy of legal remedy — Multiplicity of suits.
1. The court of common pleas has jurisdiction to enjoin an administrative agency of the state from exercising powers not conferred upon it, or unconstitutionally conferred upon it. [392-3]
2. An injured party whose rights are transgressed is entitled to equitable relief when the legal remedy is neither full, complete nor adequate. [393]
3. The avoidance of a multiplicity of suits is a ground for equitable relief. [393]
Labor law — Labor Anti — Injunction Act of 1937 — Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act of 1937 — Construction — Hospitals — Definition — Governmental function.
4. The Labor Anti-Injunction Act of June 2, 1937, P. L. 1198, as amended, is not applicable to a hospital. [387, 388]
5. The words "industry, trade, craft or occupation" as used in Section 3(a) of the Labor Anti-Injunction Act do not include the operations of a hospital. [386-7]
6. The word "employer" as defined in section 3(c) of the State Labor Relations Act of June 1, 1937, P. L. 1168, as amended, does not include a hospital. [386-7]
7. Hospitals are scientific institutions created for a humane purpose in amelioration of the sufferings of mankind. [389]
8. The State Labor Relations Act does not confer upon the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board any jurisdiction over a labor dispute between a hospital and its employees. [388-91]
Argued November 26, 1940.
PER CURIAM, January 6, 1941:
The decree of the court below is affirmed on the comprehensive opinion of Judge RICHARDS. Costs to be paid by appellant.