Taft v. Kent Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Harvey 0. Taft, receiver of the Masonic Life Association, to compel Willis B. Perkins, circuit judge of Kent county, to vacate an order allowing a claim against the association.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, O. J.
The affairs of the Masonic Life Association went into the hands of a receiver under a decree dated December 12, 1896, upon a petition for its voluntary dissolution under chapter 282, 2 How. Stat. (chapter 300, 3 Comp. Laws), filed August 23, 1896. The receiver reported the amount of claims approved at $57,000, besides *313$11,000 of contested claims. In that case we sustained the .receiver in his levy of assessments upon members to pay death claims which accrued before the petition for dissolution was filed. Calkins v. Angell, 123 Mich. 77 (81 N. W. 977). In the present case a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Calkins v. AngellMichigan Supreme Court · 1900