State ex rel. Gall v. Barnes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Upon, tbe information of Thomas A. Gall, and upon the information of H. W. Coulter, the district court for St. Louis county granted writs of quo warranto requiring respondent, L. A. Barnes, to show by what warrant he hindered and prevented said Gall from occupying the office of imperial vice good Samaritan and that of a member of the executive board of Modern Samaritans, a fraternal society.
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Upon, tbe information of Thomas A. Gall, and upon the information of H. W. Coulter, the district court for St. Louis county granted writs of quo warranto requiring respondent, L. A. Barnes, to show by what warrant he hindered and prevented said Gall from occupying the office of imperial vice good Samaritan and that of a member of the executive board of Modern Samaritans, a fraternal society. The matter was heard by Dancer, J., who made findings and ordered judgment discharging the writs. Relators’ motion for amended findings was granted. From an order denying motions for new trials, relators…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
Two proceedings, by information in the nature of quo warranto, were instituted to test the title of defendant to the' office of vice good Samaritan in the order of Modern Samaritans, a fraternal beneficiary order. One was commenced by the relator Gall, as a claimant of -the office, the other by the relator Coulter, as a beneficiary member of the order.
The head office of the order is at Duluth. It has local bodies called ' subordinate councils. The membership of each state or jurisdiction may have a grand council, and over all is an imperial council.
Dp to 1913 the imperial council was composed…
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