Manning v. Feidelson

The hill seeks to enjoin defendant trustee from distributing a $20,000^ fund in his hands so as to exclude complainant and the class of employees that she represents.

The trustee filed a plea in abatement alleging that he was acting in his capacity as Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board; hence the court was without jurisdiction of his person. His counsel also moved for a dissolution of the injunction. The chancellor sustained the plea in abatement and dissolved the injunction. The parties have treated this as a dismissal of the bill, although the decree does not., so…