Griffiths & Sprague Stevedoring Co. v. Waterfront Employers Ass'n of Pacific Coast

In an action by appellee, Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast, a California corporation, against appellant, Griffiths & Sprague Stevedoring Company, Incorporated, a Washington corporation, appellee obtained a judgment against appellant for $74,471.04, with interest and costs. From that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellee is a nonprofit corporation formed under article 1, §§ 593-605e, of title 12 of part 4 of division 1 of the California Civil Code. It has voting members and associate (nonvoting) members. 1 Its voting members are persons, firms, associations and corporations engaged in the business of carrying cargo by water to or from Pacific coast ports of the United States (except Alaska ports) or their designated agents. Its associate members are persons, firms, associations and corporations employing longshoremen or other shore em *1018 ployees at said ports and associations and corporations composed of such employers or formed to deal with matters relating to such employments. At all pertinent times, appellant was a corporation employing longshoremen and other shore employees at Pacific coast ports in the State of Washington and was an associate…