Powell v. United Ass'n of Plumbers & Steamfitters of United States & Canada
| Citation | 240 N.Y. 616,148 N.E. 728 |
| Parties | POWELL et al. v. UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS OF UNITED STATES AND CANADA. |
| Decision Date | 05 May 1925 |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals |
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Action by Thomas F. Powell, as President of Local Union 299 of the City of White Plains, and others, against the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters of United States and Canada. From a judgment of the Appellate Division (211 App. Div. 810, 206 N. Y. S. 951), unanimously affirming judgment for plaintiff, on decision of court on trial at Special Term, defendant appeals by permission.
Modified, and affirmed as modified.Appeal from Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second department.
Sydney A. Syme, of Mt. Vernon, for appellant.
Humphrey J. Lynch, of New York City, for respondents.
The complaint, read in its entirety, exhibits a cause of action to stay the enforcement of the defendant's resolution consolidating the local unions during the pendency of the appeal already taken by the plaintiffs to the convention of the members. The judgment goes farther, and, upon a finding that the resolution was passed in violation of the constitution and the by-laws, declares it illegal and restrains its enforcement forever.
[1] Courts are reluctant to interfery by injunction in controversies that touch the internal management of foreign corporations. Sauerbrunn v. Hartford Life Ins. Co., 220 N. Y. 363, 115 N. E. 1001;Travis v. Knox Terpezone Co., 215 N. Y. 259, 263,109 N. E. 250, L. R. A. 1916A, 542, Ann. Cas. 1917A, 387;Kimball v. St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co., 157 Mass. 7, 8, 31 N. E. 697,34 Am. St. Rep. 250. Their reluctance may be overcome by the presence of some urgent need, but relief is seldom, if ever, to be extended beyond the call of the emergency.
The threatened disruption of local unions, functioning within the state, made it proper, so far as an injunction could avail, to preserve the status quo pending appeal to the convention. Brown v. Order of Foresters, 176 N. Y. 132, 68 N. E. 145. Relief beyond that time, if granted at all, should wait upon the exhaustion of the remedy within the corporation and the result of the appeal. Hickey v. Baine, 195 Mass. 446, 452, 81 N. E. 201. If the merger is then annulled, resort to the courts will be unnecessary. If it is sustained, there will be need to consider the fitness of going farther, and the curative effect of subsequent approval in respect of prior irregularities. Problems of this order are incapable of solution...
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