Court Opinion

ID: 5380376
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 08:56:49.867622+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:07.237291
License: Public Domain

Derivative action to set aside the admission of certain members into the Empire State Motion Picture Operators’ Union, Inc., and to set aside the election of certain officers; also to set aside an agreement to pay certain sums to certain individuals. A.ppeal by plaintiffs from judgment dismissing the complaint on the merits, and from an order granting defendants’ motion for an extra allowance. Defendants heretofore moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the questions involved had become academic. That motion was denied on October 2, 1944, with leave to renew on the argument of the appeal. The motion accordingly was renewed and is now before us. The undisputed proof is that the acts of which complaint is made by plaintiffs in respect of the election of certain individuals as members of the Union, and the election of certain individuals as officers of the Union, have been validated at subsequent meetings of the Union under validly adopted constitutional provisions. It further appears, without dispute, that the agreement to pay over certain sums of money, which plaintiffs attack, has been rescinded, and that it likewise has been the subject of an adjudication that it is void. Accordingly, the questions involved in this appeal have become academic. The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted, with ten dollars costs, ar.d the appeal from the judgment and order is dismissed, without costs. Present — Close, P. J., Hagarty, Carswell, Johnston and Adel, JJ. [See 269 App. Div. 667.]