Saltman v. Nesson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on June 23, 1905, by seven individuals, including one. Finberg hereinafter referred to, and the Congregation Beth Israel, a religious corporation, against twenty-three individuals.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on June 23, 1905, by seven individuals, including one. Finberg hereinafter referred to, and the Congregation Beth Israel, a religious corporation, against twenty-three individuals. The bill alleged that the plaintiffs were members, seatholders and a majority of the board of directors of the plaintiff corporation, and that they brought the suit in behalf of themselves as members and seatholders in the congregation and in behalf of all other members and seatholders therein “ and in behalf of the Congregation Beth Israel.” The…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
If primarily the controversy was confined to the form of divine worship to be used by the congregation, the progress of the dissension has developed other differences which the parties also seek to litigate in the present suit. The bill as. amended asks for restoration to membership of an expelled member, and that some of the defendants who have usurped certain corporate offices may be restrained from interfering with its property, joined with demands by the corporation for an accounting by the defendant ISTesson of his receipts and expenditures as mortgagee and president, and that the form…
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