Hill v. Aarre
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Worcester on February 1,1906, seeking a conveyance by the defendant corporation, Rauhan Aarre, to the plaintiffs or to some persons as trustees for the Young People’s Society Wainala of a one third interest in certain property the record title to which was held by that corporation under an agreement with the Young People’s Society Wainala to convey to it such one third interest. The case was referred to a master.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Worcester on February 1,1906, seeking a conveyance by the defendant corporation, Rauhan Aarre, to the plaintiffs or to some persons as trustees for the Young People’s Society Wainala of a one third interest in certain property the record title to which was held by that corporation under an agreement with the Young People’s Society Wainala to convey to it such one third interest. The case was referred to a master. After a hearing on his report, Sanderson, J., made a final decree directing that the conveyance prayed for be made; and…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The parties, having waived certain questions arising under the pleadings, have agreed that the sole question to be submitted to the court is “ whether on the facts found by the master (subject to the preceding waiver) the vote of May 5, 1905, by which the Young People’s Society Wainala voted to join the Workingmen’s Society Imatri No. 3 and succeeding votes were effective and operative against the objecting minority to combine said societies and to transfer said property described in the bill or the right to the said property to the said Workingmen’s Society Imatri No. 3.” And it is agreed…
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