Courtney v. Charles Dowd Box Co.

The plaintiffs, who are members of the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, and its Local 5158, both individually and on behalf of all the members, bring this bill in equity to enforce a collective bargaining-agreement with the defendant. The defendant filed a demurrer to the bill and a “motion to dismiss” for want of jurisdiction, and appealed from interlocutory decrees overruling the demurrer and denying the motion to dismiss. The ease was referred to a master. The defendant raises questions relating to the master, the hearings before him, and his reports. The final decree declared the…