Mix v. Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workers of North America

This action was brought by the plaintiff below to recover death benefits alleged to be due under the constitutions of the defendants, voluntary associations of which her husband, Otto Mix, had been a member. A trial of the cause before the court, sitting without a jury, resulted in findings and a judgment favorable to the defendants. The plaintiff appeals.

Otto Mix had been a member of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America (referred hereafter as the International) for many years, and, during that time, had held membership in different local affiliated unions of the…