Lahiff v. Saint Joseph's Total Abstinence & Benevolent Society
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the illegal and summary-expulsion of the plaintiff from membership in the defendant society, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Wind-ham County, Grager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $200 damages, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The defendant in this action is a voluntary unincorporated association, which, under § 588 of the General Statutes, may sue and be sued by its distinguishing name, and against which a suit may be brought by any individual member thereof.
The plaintiff claims damages, upon the ground that he has been unlawfully expelled from said association and deprived of all the rights and privileges incident to membership therein.
By its answer the defendant denied all the allegations of the complaint, excepting those describing the character and location of the defendant society.
It appears by the finding of…
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