Birmingham v. Gallagher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by William Birmingham, Roger H. Scannell, Thomas Cook, John W. Sullivan, John B. Riley, Thomas R. Wallace, and Thomas O’Donnell, for and on behalf of themselves arid others, members of an association called the Boston Pressmen’s Benevolent Union, who might become parties to the bill, against Francis C. Gallagher and the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank.
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Bill in equity by William Birmingham, Roger H. Scannell, Thomas Cook, John W. Sullivan, John B. Riley, Thomas R. Wallace, and Thomas O’Donnell, for and on behalf of themselves arid others, members of an association called the Boston Pressmen’s Benevolent Union, who might become parties to the bill, against Francis C. Gallagher and the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank. The bill alleged that in July, 1861, an association was organized, the principal objects of which were to protect the interests and promote the general welfare of pressmen in the city of Boston; that it was named, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The causes assigned in the demurrer find no support in the allegations of the bill. The bill states that' the plaintiffs and many others formed a voluntary association for certain purposes specified, (none of which appear on the face of the bill, or are suggested by the demurrer, to have been unlawful,) the name of the association was afterwards changed by vote of its members at a regular meeting, funds of the association were deposited for its use in the name of its four trustees in a savings bank, one of those trustees has refused to join with his fellows in an assignment of…
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