Gregg v. Massachusetts Medical Society
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill rs" equity filed by Samuel Gregg, George Russell, Milton Fuller, David Thayer, Israel T. Talbot, Herman L. H. Hoffendahl and William Bushnell, physicians and surgeons, against the Massachusetts Medical Society, Samuel A. Fisk, Luther Parks, Richard L. Hodgdon, Thomas L. Gage, Asa Millet, Bowman B. Breed, Jeremiah Spofford, Augustus Torrey, Francis C. Green, George Hayward and Frederick Winsor; alleging that the Massachusetts Medical Society was incorporated by an act of…
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Bill rs" equity filed by Samuel Gregg, George Russell, Milton Fuller, David Thayer, Israel T. Talbot, Herman L. H. Hoffendahl and William Bushnell, physicians and surgeons, against the Massachusetts Medical Society, Samuel A. Fisk, Luther Parks, Richard L. Hodgdon, Thomas L. Gage, Asa Millet, Bowman B. Breed, Jeremiah Spofford, Augustus Torrey, Francis C. Green, George Hayward and Frederick Winsor; alleging that the Massachusetts Medical Society was incorporated by an act of the Legislature November 1, 1781; “that according to said act of incorporation and subsequent acts, and the by-laws…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
This is a bill in equity in which the plaintiffs allege that they are physicians and surgeons and have been duly elected members of the Massachusetts Medical Society and are entitled to all the rights and privileges of members; that they have been summoned to appear before a committee of said society to answer to a charge that they “ have violated and continue to violate the by-laws of the Massachusetts Medical Society by conduct unbecoming and unworthy an honorable physician and member of the society, to wit, by practising or professing to practise according to a certain exclusive theory or…
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