L. D. Willcutt & Sons Co. v. Driscoll
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 19, 1906, and amended on November 22, 1906, by a corporation, engaged in the business of constructing buildings, against (as amended) certain individuals as officers and members of two voluntary unincorporated associations, the Bricklayers’ Benevolent and Protective Union Number Three, and the Stonemasons’ Benevolent and Protective Union Number Nine, both of Boston and the vicinity, and all other members of those unions,…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 19, 1906, and amended on November 22, 1906, by a corporation, engaged in the business of constructing buildings, against (as amended) certain individuals as officers and members of two voluntary unincorporated associations, the Bricklayers’ Benevolent and Protective Union Number Three, and the Stonemasons’ Benevolent and Protective Union Number Nine, both of Boston and the vicinity, and all other members of those unions, being upwards of eighteen hundred in number and most of them to the plaintiff unknown, the individuals named being the…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This bill, although originally brought against two unincorporated associations or labor unions by name, has now been amended, so that it runs only against certain individuals as officers and members of these associations and against the other members of those associations as represented by these individuals. No question is made that the defendants do not sufficiently represent all the members of both unions ; and the *112bill is not open to objection upon this ground. Pickett v. Walsh, 192 Mass. 572, 589, 590, and cases there cited.
The questions before us are raised upon a report of the facts…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- People v. . GillsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Doremus v. HennessyIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Vegelahn v. GuntnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Pickett v. WalshMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- Huskie v. GriffinSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1909
- M. Steinert & Sons Co. v. TagenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
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