Wilson

This is an appeal by the plaintiff in an action brought to recover from the defendants the sum of eight hundred dollars, alleged to be due as a death benefit payable to the plaintiff upon the death of her husband, by virtue of his membership in the two organizations made parties defendant in this action.

The facts are practically undisputed and may be summarized as follows: Local Union No. 216 of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ International Alliance is an unincorporated association of a number of craftsmen, and is, as its name indicates, a branch of the international organization, to whose general laws it is subject, and which has for its principal purpose the securing of those rights and advantages for its members for the better maintenance of which similar labor organizations are created. The defendant, District Council 'of Sheet Metal Workers of the state of California, is also an unincorporated association, called into being by the several local unions of the general order within a certain district, and having for its chief object the collection and payment of death benefits to the widows or other beneficiaries of deceased members of the several local unions comprising…