State ex rel. Weingart v. Board of Officers of the Central Society
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: James O’Neill, Judge. The “Gegenseitige Unterstuetzungs Gesellsehaft Germania” is a Wisconsin corporation organized under ch. 86, Stats. (1898), for the purpose of furnishing life insurance to its members on the assessment plan.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: James O’Neill, Judge. The “Gegenseitige Unterstuetzungs Gesellsehaft Germania” is a Wisconsin corporation organized under ch. 86, Stats. (1898), for the purpose of furnishing life insurance to its members on the assessment plan. The highest authority in the corporation appears to be the “Central Society” or the “Grand Council,” which consists of all charter members of the corporation and the officers thereof and one member from each subordinate council. This council meets biennially and elects the general officers of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBauNes, J.
The appellants urge that the judgment should be reversed on the following grounds: (1) Relief will not be granted by mandamus because no property rights are involved. (2) The relators should have exhausted their remedy by appeal to the Grand Council of the society before resorting to the courts. (3) If there was a remedy in the courts, cer-tiorari proceedings should have been resorted to. (4) Relief should not be granted, because the relators had a full and fair trial as provided by the rules of the society. (5) The re-lators became suspended from office ipso facto as soon as charges were…
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