PHILLIPS v. PERRIN


450 P.2d 767 (1969)

Paul PHILLIPS and Oscar Robertson, Individually and As Representatives of All the Members of the United Papermakers and Paper Workers, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association, Respondents and Cross-Appellants, v. William R. PERRIN, As Representative of All of the Members of the Uniform Labor Agreement Committee, an Unincorporated Association, and William R. Perrin As Representative of All of the Members of the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers, an Unincorporated Association, Appellants, and William R. Perrin, Individually, and Delance Archer, Elmer Lines, George Wood, John Swanson, Charles Gargaro, Jack Myers, Richard Ameden, Clarence Dukes, E. Foley and R. Kimball, Cross-Respondents. William H. Burnell and Oren Parker, Individually and As Representatives of All of the Members of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association, Respondents and Cross-Appellants, v. William R. Perrin, As Representative of All the Members of the Uniform Labor Agreement Committee, an Unincorporated Association, and William R. Perrin, As Representative of All of the Members of the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers, an Unincorporated Association, Appellants, and William R. Perrin, Individually, and Delance Archer, Elmer Lines, George Wood, John Swanson, Charles Gargaro, Jack Myers, Richard Ameden, Clarence Dukes, E. Foley and R. Kimball, Cross-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Decided February 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don S. Willner, Portland, for appellants. With him on the briefs were Willner, Bennett, Leonard & Burns, Portland.

Hugh Hafer, Seattle, Wash., for respondents. On the brief were Bassett, Donaldson & Hafer, Seattle, Wash., McInnis, Wilson, Munson & Woods, Washington, D.C., and Galton & Popick, Portland.

Before PERRY, C.J., and McALLISTER, SLOAN, O'CONNELL, GOODWIN, DENECKE and HOLMAN, JJ.


PERRY, Chief Justice.

Defendants, on behalf of a regional labor union recently organized in the pulp and paper industry, appeal from a circuit court decree awarding to two old international unions some $160,000 taken from the treasuries of 32 local unions that seceded from the respective internationals in 1964. The money was, for the most part, expended to form the new union.

The plaintiffs substantially interested in the funds are the United Papermakers and...

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