Porth v. Local Union 201

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cowan, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court refusing to sustain plaintiff’s motion to strike the petition, answer the cross petition of certain intervening members of Local Union 201, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, filed in a suit by A. J. Porth against the union and- certain of its officers. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the court below.

This action was commenced on April 13, 1947, in the district court of Sedgwick county. Plaintiff alleged, among other things, that the brotherhood was…