Weber v. Anspach

Plaintiffs filed these three suits for specific performance seeking to require the defendant to pay certain delinquent contributions to labor-management pension, health and welfare, and apprenticeship trust funds respectively. The court entered an order (denominated a judgment and decree by the defendant) in favor of the plaintiffs in all three cases and the defendant appeals. The three cases are consolidated for the appeal.

In 1958 the defendant, a building contractor, joined the Portland Home Builders Association, a budding contractors’ association wbicb had a labor agreement with the…