Leogrande v. Carpenters' Local No. 391, C.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

The determinative question we are to decide is whether plaintiff’s husband was, at the time of his death, a member in good standing in defendants’ union, and whether, because of that fact, plaintiff was entitled to the member’s funeral donation as prescribed in the constitution and by-laws of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America ?

By defendants’ constitution and by-laws (section 48) on the death of a member “in good standing,” his wife or legal heirs, as named on his application, are entitled to the member’s funeral…