Duggins v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters

OPINION

By HILDEBRANT, PJ.:

This appeal on questions of law is from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court, arrived at without the intervention of a jury, allowing recovery to plaintiff, a widow, of the death benefits provided for in the Constitution of the Brotherhood —defendant—following the death of her husband, a member of Local Union No. 1602, affiliated with the defendant Brotherhood, an unincorporated Association, international in scope.

In recognition of the principle declared by the courts, including this one, that the legal relationship between the membership and the Union is contractual…