People ex rel. Roehler v. Mechanics Aid Society
Michigan Supreme Court
Application for mandamus: By Anton Roehler, to compel the Mechanics’ Aid Society to restore to him his rights as a member of the society. The petition of the relator sets forth the incorporation of the society under the act to provide for the incorporation of mechanics’ associations, approved February 17,1857 {Comp.
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Application for mandamus: By Anton Roehler, to compel the Mechanics’ Aid Society to restore to him his rights as a member of the society. The petition of the relator sets forth the incorporation of the society under the act to provide for the incorporation of mechanics’ associations, approved February 17,1857 {Comp. Laws, cli. 62); that he became a member of it and a shareholder of its stock in the manner provided by its laws, and that he had derived from such membership great advantages and profits. The relator further states that on the second day of November, 1869, at a regular meeting of…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
The relator has been deprived of substantial rights; and while we should not regard matters of form too closely in the proceedings of corporations like this, yet he is entitled to claim that nothing important shall be disregarded to his prejudice. The objections existing in this case are in their nature jurisdictional, and cannot be considered unimportant.
We do not feel disposed to consider the question of the validity of the by-law, as we have only a translation of it, and there may be some difficulty in understanding its precise extent. But the word which is translated…
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