Odd Fellows Hall Ass'n v. McAllister
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin of furniture. The writ described each defendant as “ trustee ” of an encampment of the “ Independent Order of Odd Fellows.”
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Replevin of furniture. The writ described each defendant as “ trustee ” of an encampment of the “ Independent Order of Odd Fellows.” At the trial in the Superior Court, before Laihrop, J., there was evidence tending to show that the plaintiff was a corporation duly organized by members of the order of Odd Fellows in 1868 or 1869, but with no legal connection between it and that order; that the corporation was the owner of a building in Boston, erected by it for the use of the various lodges and encampments of the order, all of which were voluntary associations, as well as for the occupation…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action of replevin for certain furniture purchased with the proceeds of an Odd Fellows’ fair, and placed in the plaintiff’s building by the committee of the fair. The defendants are trustees of voluntary associations,—branches, we presume, of a larger voluntary association,—called encampments of Odd Fellows, who hired the rooms in which the furniture was, and removed it when their lease ended and they *295moved elsewhere. The main question before us is whether there was any evidence on which the plaintiff was entitled to go to the jury.
If the case stopped with the foregoing facts,…
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