Johnson v. Howze
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Alfred H. Benners. Bill by C. A. Howze and others against C. F. Johnson and others. From an order dissolving a temporary injunction, complainants appeal. The courts will interfere to protect property rights and to compel an accounting in matters of this kind. — Otto v. Journeymen Tailors, 7 Am.
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Appeal from Jefferson Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Alfred H. Benners. Bill by C. A. Howze and others against C. F. Johnson and others. From an order dissolving a temporary injunction, complainants appeal. The courts will interfere to protect property rights and to compel an accounting in matters of this kind. — Otto v. Journeymen Tailors, 7 Am. St. Rep. 160; Burke v. Roper, 79 Ala. 143; Gieske v. Anderson, 77 Cal. 247; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 679; Fitts v. Jones, 59 Am. Dec. 711; Connolly v. Masonic A sso., 18 Am. St. Rep. 100; Bacon Benef. Soc. secs. 61 and 77. The majority in order…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The only question presented for review on this appeal is the propriety of the action taken below in the dissolution, on the denials of the answer, of the temporary injunction issued. The bill is grounded upon a contest between complainants and respondents as to who were the officers de jure of Grand Lodge No. 23 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of America. Asserting their equál right to the several offices described in the bill and to the funds committed by the laws of the order to such officers, the complainants seek to invoke the powers of the court of equity to restrain the…
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