Baldwin v. Hosmer
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applied for mandamus to compel the respondent to punish as for contempt certain officers of a Detroit branch of the Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall in refusing to turn over to an ancillary receiver, appointed in this State, the assets in their hands belonging to said order. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, who is one of the judges of the circuit court for the county of Wayne, to punish as for contempt certain persons who are officers of a local branch of the Order of the Iron Hall.
The petition alleges substantially that the Supreme Sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall is a corporation organized at the city of Indianapolis, Ind., in the month of July, 1881, under and pursuant to the provisions .of article 8, chap. 24, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana; that, after its formation, it entered upon the business…
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