State ex rel. Waring v. Georgia Medical Society
Supreme Court of Georgia
Mandamus. Decided by Judge Schley. Chatham Superior Court. January Term, 1869. James J. Waring filed in the Superior Court of Chatham -county/his petition for a writ of mandamus, with certain exhibits and affidavits, averring the following facts: * * * * * By an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, assented to December 12th, 1804, “The Georgia Medical Society” was duly incorporated for the purposes in said act mentioned, and with the powers and -privileges…
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Mandamus. Decided by Judge Schley. Chatham Superior Court. January Term, 1869. James J. Waring filed in the Superior Court of Chatham -county/his petition for a writ of mandamus, with certain exhibits and affidavits, averring the following facts: * * * * * By an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, assented to December 12th, 1804, “The Georgia Medical Society” was duly incorporated for the purposes in said act mentioned, and with the powers and -privileges therein specified. The principal place of business of said corporation is in the said county. On the twenty-ninth day-of…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.
1. It was insisted, in this ease, that the Georgia Medical Society was in existence long before it was incorporated, and that its objects were in no way changed by its application for and acceptance of its present charter from the State. This may be very true, but its legal responsibilities were changed by the acceptance of the charter. While it remained a vol*626untary society, the courts had no jurisdiction over it, if it violated no law of the State, and its members had no property in their membership which the law could protect.- But its acceptance of the charter subjected it to the…
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