In re the Arbitration between International Union United Automobile Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers & Aircooled Motors, Inc.

Resettled order reversed on the law and proceeding dismissed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Memorandum: The respondent, the International Union and its local union, are unincorporated associations. At common law, such an association could only maintain an action or proceeding in the names of all of its members. It is not a legal entity, separate and apart from the individual persons who compose it. (Ostrom v. Greene, 161 N. Y. 353.) By statute, an action or special proceeding may be maintained by or against an unincorporated association in the name of its president or…