Court Opinion

ID: 9607669
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:01:12.114456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:58.049919
License: Public Domain

Bistline, J.
dissented in Carroll, and his position in the instant case is consistent. I cannot, however, fathom the reasoning of the two members of the Court. If Carroll was wrong, it should be overruled. I view as sophistry any attempt to distinguish Carroll on the basis that Carroll involved a total failure of duty, while the instant case involves only a partial failure of duty. If such be a distinction, it is merely one without a difference.
*649Lastly, it is to be noted that the defendant United Steelworkers of America, is an unincorporated association. Plaintiff is a member of that unincorporated association. Presumably the union has no existence, corporate or otherwise, separate and apart from its members, and does not constitute a separate entity. The question of how the plaintiff, along with others as members of a nonincorporated association, can owe a duty to himself is not discussed, nor the implications of a breach of that duty which presumably plaintiff, along with others, had an alleged obligation to perform.