Davids v. Sillcox

Petitioners, members of the Authors’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America, Inc., have obtained an order requiring the Guild to furnish petitioners the names and addresses of all members of the Guild. Petitioners sought the list for the purpose of communicating with the membership *55concerning Guild affairs, particularly in reference to certain action which petitioners wished taken. While the argument on appeal and the excellent opinion of Special Term (188 Misc. 45) deal mainly with the authority of the court to grant the order and the propriety of the order under the circumstances, we have…