Case Name: SCALLY v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (AFL-CIO) DETROIT LOCAL 4000
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1966-07-12
Citations: 3 Mich. App. 737
Docket Number: Docket No. 1,497
Parties: SCALLY v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (AFL-CIO) DETROIT LOCAL 4000
Judges: J. H. Gillis, P. J., and Fitzgerald and Quinn, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 3
Pages: 737–738

Head Matter:
SCALLY v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (AFL-CIO) DETROIT LOCAL 4000
Labor Relations — Exhaustion op Intraunion Remedies — Jurisdiction.
Accelerated judgment for defendant union and its officers held, proper in an aetion by plaintiff union members to enjoin the holding of a union meeting, where plaintiffs had not exhausted their intraunion remedies, since the trial court had no jurisdiction of the action.
References for Points in Headnote
31 Am Jur, Labor § 68.
Appeal from Wayne; Canham (James N.), J.
Submitted Division 2 June 6, 1966, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 1,497.)
Decided July 12, 1966.
Rehearing denied September 2,1966.
Complaint by John Seally, Stanley Baranowski and Thomas Quinlan against Communications Workers of America UAW-CIO, Detroit Local 4000, Norman G. Mackay, Clarence Groesbeck, and John H. Livingstone to enjoin the holding of a union meeting. Accelerated judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed.
Robert J. Lawther (Edward P. Echlin, of counsel), for plaintiffs.
Brennan, Walt & Guth (Alan Walt, of counsel), for defendants.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Plaintiffs, members of defendant union, filed this action against the union and its officers but failed to allege that the appeal procedures of the union had been pursued. In their answer, defendants pleaded as an affirmative defense plaintiffs' failure to exhaust intraunion remedies. Defendants then moved for accelerated judgment on the ground the court lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, GCR 1963, 116.1(2), and the motion was granted. Plaintiffs appeal.
Kennedy v. UAW-AFL-GIO Local No. 659 (1966), 3 Mich App 629, controls. Affirmed, with costs to defendants.
J. H. Gillis, P. J., and Fitzgerald and Quinn, JJ., concurred.