Sawyer v. Iowa State Conference

Hattie Sawyer is the widow of M. G. Sawyer. He died on April 5, 1933, and at the time of his death was a bricklayer and mason by occupation. She commenced this suit in equity against the Iowa State Conference and the Iowa City Local No. 18, both being separate units of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union of America, to compel the payment of death benefits to the widow of a deceased member, to establish a trust in a portion of the mortuary fund, and, in the event of its being depleted, to enforce the making of an assessment against the membership of said organizations,…