Sabourin v. J. S. Lippe
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 18, 1905, in behalf of the plaintiffs and all the members of Court Samuel de Champlain, No. 49, Foresters of America, against J. S. Lippe, Paul Yigeant, Arthur Lavoie, J. E. Lippe, Napoleon H. Roy and Wilbrod Bouthilette and against the same defendants as officers of and as representing all the members of L’Union Samuel de Champlain, another voluntary association, and against the Central Savings Bank, the Washington…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 18, 1905, in behalf of the plaintiffs and all the members of Court Samuel de Champlain, No. 49, Foresters of America, against J. S. Lippe, Paul Yigeant, Arthur Lavoie, J. E. Lippe, Napoleon H. Roy and Wilbrod Bouthilette and against the same defendants as officers of and as representing all the members of L’Union Samuel de Champlain, another voluntary association, and against the Central Savings Bank, the Washington Savings Institution and the Mechanics Savings Bank in Lowell. The plaintiffs were alleged to be the officers of a voluntary…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This case comes before us on an appeal from a final decree in favor of the plaintiffs. The questions arise on exceptions of the defendants, other than the savings banks and savings institution, to the master’s report. These excepting defendants are hereinafter called the defendants. The first question is whether the master was wrong in finding that the vote of secession, so called, passed at the meeting of Court Samuel de Champlain, No. 49, November 19,1905, did not dissolve that court, or carry it as an association out of the Order of Foresters. For different reasons the vote was ineffectual…
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