Ehrlich v. Willenski

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

Whatever relaxation of the rule that requires all persons interested to be made parties to a suit at law may have been permitted in the case of unincorporated societies, no decision can be found, I think, that allows an action to be brought in the form that has been adopted here. The facts are these: Edward Ehrlich, the legal plaintiff, made a written contract with Local Union No. 165 of the Cigar Makers’ International Union •of America, by which the local society undertook to furnish him with the union label, to be affixed to the boxes in which he proposed to…