Trustees of Onalaska Camp No. 418, Modern Woodmen of America v. Onalaska Modern Woodmen Hall Ass'n

In disposing of this case the trial judge relied on German Corporation v. Negaunee German Aid Society, 172 Mich. 650, 138 N. W. 343, or at least upon the principles which ruled the decision. In that case the defendant Negaunee German Aid Society was a corporation organized to provide for the relief of distressed members, the visitation of the sick, the burial of the dead, and for such other benevolent and worthy objects as affected the members of the corporation. One Charles L. Werner was a member of the aid society. He died leaving a will devising and bequeathing all his property to the…