Chase v. Patron Transmission Co.

The plaintiff is a former employee of the defendant Patron Transmission Co., Inc., and by virtue thereof he had been a participant in its Employees Retirement Trust Fund. The Fund (and not the Trustees of the Fund) is named as a second defendant.

Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment determining his rights under the trust instrument. The answer of the defendants contains denials in various forms to the allegations of the complaint; alleges in an affirmative defense that plaintiff lost his *201rights as a participant in the Fund by virtue of his conduct while an employee, and then in a…