Case ID: ohio-law-abs_2/html/0444-03.html
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Author: {"author": "VICKERY, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 434
    BRODIE v. INT. UNION et al
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 5307.
    Decided May 2, 1924
    700. LABOR UNION — Mandatory order compelling union to issue to member in good standing a transfer card.
   VICKERY, P. J.

Epitomized Opinion

Published Only in Ohio Law Abstract

Brodie, a member in good standing of local of hoisting engineers brought action for a mandatory injunction compelling the officers of The International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers to grant to him a transfer card. The union had ordered the local to which Brodie was a member to strike which the local refused and thereupon its charter was revoked. The by-laws of the constitution provided that on the revocation of a charter if a man was in good standing he should be g'ranted a transfer card. Brodie exhausted all the remedies he had in the union of securing the transfer card, which was refused without any apparent reason. The Common Pleas awarded a decree in Brodie’s favor. On appeal the Court of Appeals granted a mandatory order compelling the union to issue Brodie a transfer card, holding:

Attorneys — Reed, Meals, Orgill & Maschke, for Brodie; J. Paul Thompson and Wm. J. Dowley, for the Union; all of Cleveland.

1. That under the constitution Brodie was entitled to a transfer card, that he had exhausted all of his remedies in the union to obtain the transfer card and that it was withheld from him without just cause.