Opinion
No. 31881
Decided October 26, 1949.
Supreme Court — Dismissal — No debatable constitutional question involved — Labor unions — Union constitution requirement — Exhaustion of remedies within union before resort to courts — Expulsion of member — Failure of member to exercise right of final appeal afforded by union — Such appeal afforded at quadrennial conventions of union — Action by member in New York court against secretary of local lodge — Injunction against interference with membership rights — Ohio action against secretary and grand lodge officials — For restoration to membership — Dismissal by court — New York judgment not res judicata as to grand lodge officials — Exhaustion of union remedies essential before resort to courts — Full faith and credit — Section 1, Article IV, U.S. Constitution — Due process — Section 16, Article I, Constitution — Article XIV, Amendments, U.S. Constitution.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Hamilton county.
Messrs. Paxton Seasongood, for appellant.
Messrs. Nichols, Wood, Marx Ginter and Mr. Leonard D. Slutz, for appellees.
It is ordered and adjudged that this appeal as of right be, and the same hereby is, dismissed for the reason that no debatable constitutional question is involved.
Appeal dismissed.
WEYGANDT, C.J., MATTHIAS, HART, ZIMMERMAN, TURNER and TAFT, JJ., concur.
STEWART, J., not participating.