O'Neill v. Delaney

There is no provision in the constitution under which the “branches,” or local associations, of the parent union were organized whereby the funds collected from members of a branch by the officers of that branch were to become the property of the union. On the contrary, every expression of the instrument on the subject of the receipt and payment of moneys indicates that the funds were to remain the property of the local association from whose members they were collected. That a branch is to control its own finances is directly provided by section 3, article 1 of the constitution; death…