Spayd v. Ringing Rock Lodge
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 98, Oct. T., 1919, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Montgomery County, Oct. T., 1916, No. 8, sitting in equity, dismissing bill for injunction in tbe case of H. F. Spayd y. Ringing Rock Lodge No. 665, Brotberbood of Railroad Trainmen, Pottstown, et al. Bill in equity for a mandatory injunction to compel the reinstatement of plaintiff as a member of an unincorporated association. Before Swartz, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 98, Oct. T., 1919, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Montgomery County, Oct. T., 1916, No. 8, sitting in equity, dismissing bill for injunction in tbe case of H. F. Spayd y. Ringing Rock Lodge No. 665, Brotberbood of Railroad Trainmen, Pottstown, et al. Bill in equity for a mandatory injunction to compel the reinstatement of plaintiff as a member of an unincorporated association. Before Swartz, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to findings of fact and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
The plaintiff was expelled from the defendant unincorporated association, of which he had been a member for fifteen years. If he was lawfully expelled, he has no complaint; if he was not, he is unlawfully deprived of Ms interest in the accumulated funds of the association, wMch, it is alleged in the bill and not denied in the answer, amount to $4,000,000, and loses the benefit of the certificate issued by the association’s benéficiary department which entitled him to the sum of $1,500 in the event of his total and permanent disa* *142bility, or his wife to the same amount in…
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