Crombie v. Order of Solon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 69, Oet. T., 1893, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1893, No. 510, granting injunction and appointing receiver. Bill in equity for injunction and receiver.
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Appeal, No. 69, Oet. T., 1893, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1893, No. 510, granting injunction and appointing receiver. Bill in equity for injunction and receiver. The bill averred that plaintiff was the holder of a benefit certificate in the Order of Solon, upon which all dues and assessments had been paid; that at an adjourned meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the order, W. R. Covert and the other defendants “ did in the absence of a majority of the members of said body, and without charge preferred, notice given or trial had, unlawfully expel from their…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
This is a bill by an alleged member, whose standing and title are denied, to take the affairs of the order out of the hands of its own officers, and administer them through a receiver. The substance of the bill is that at a meeting of the order, in the absence of a majority of the members, (it is not said in the absence of a quorum) certain members were illegally expelled, and certain officers displaced and new ones elected; and that the said new officers, defendants in the bill, coerced or misled by another defendant, Covert, were pursuing a course of…
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