Legal Opinion

Operative Plasterers' & Cement Finishers' International Ass'n v. Case

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided September 7, 1937No. 6766PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This appeal involves an action brought in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia upon a judgment obtained in the General County Court of Buncombe County, North Carolina. The principal question in the case is whether that judgment was valid in the jurisdictional sense. It is attacked upon the ground that the appellant is an unincorporated association — a trade union — and that such an association cannot be sued or served with process as an entity, as it was here, and upon the further ground that the service of process in the North…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Thompson v. WhitmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  3. United Mine Workers v. Coronado Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
  4. Milwaukee County v. M. E. White Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
  5. Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & EnginemenCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1945
  2. Wise v. HerzogCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940
  3. Blanche H. Lober v. Willis MooreCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
  4. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, and Hugh L. Rutledge v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1960
  5. Wilson & Co. v. United Packinghouse WorkersDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1949

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