Robinson v. North Pond Hunting Club

As a result of a disagreement, the members of the North Pond Hunting Club, a group of avid hunters who had come together to purchase and improve land in furtherance of their hobby, determined that one member — the plaintiff, Charles Jeffrey Robinson — needed to be removed from membership in the land trust which owned the hunting property in question. The proposal to remove Robinson was not to his liking, and he filed a complaint for a partition against all remaining parties to the land trust — members of the North Pond Hunting Club. Following a three-day bench trial on Robinson’s complaint…