Lovell v. Women's Pennsylvania Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 307, Jan. T., 1911, by defendant, from order of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1911, No. 4610, awarding writ of mandamus in case of Mrs. George S. Lovell et al. v. Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a Pennsylvania Corporation, and Caroline Earle White, President, and Elisabeth A. Somers, Recording Secretary, of said Corporation. Petition for mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 307, Jan. T., 1911, by defendant, from order of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1911, No. 4610, awarding writ of mandamus in case of Mrs. George S. Lovell et al. v. Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a Pennsylvania Corporation, and Caroline Earle White, President, and Elisabeth A. Somers, Recording Secretary, of said Corporation. Petition for mandamus. On plaintiff’s petition an alternative writ of mandamus was issued requiring the defendants to show cause why they should not reconvene the executive committee of the defendant corporation and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Ms. Justice Stewart,
Corporation by-laws are simply prescribed rules for the government of the body, and the right to make them is incident to every corporation. The charter may be absolutely silent with respect to by-laws, nevertheless the right in the corporation to ordain them for the regulation of its own affairs, provided always that they of*604fend against no law, is quite as unquestionable as though the subject of an expressed grant. The right of course may be abridged and qualified in its exercise by the charter; and this occurs where the charter expressly Avithholds the right to…
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