Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Baltimore & Ohio Employes' Relief Ass'n
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court Mo. 2, of Baltimore City. This appeal was taken from a decree of the lower Court (Harlan, J.,) prescribing the terms of accounting between the railroad company, as the assignee and trustee of all the assets of the relief association, on the one hand, and the members of the association in good standing on the 31st of March, 1889, the date of its dissolution, on the other hand. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Robinson, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The questions in this appeal arise in the distribution of the assets of the Baltimore and Ohio Employes Relief Association. The association was incorporated by the Act of 1882, chap. 358, mainly for the purpose of affording relief to such employes of the railroad company as might become members, in case of sickness, accident, old age and death.
The powers of relief were by its charter, confided to a committee of management, consisting of ten persons, one of whom was the President of the Baltimore- and Ohio Railroad Company, four to be…
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