Mobile Temperance Hall Ass'n v. Holmes
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smitpi. Bill by Mary E. Holmes and others, against the Mobile Temperance Hall Association for the distribution of assets of the defunct corporation. Decree for complainant and respondents appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
On February 29, 1848 (Acts 1847-48, p. 235), there was approved an act of the Legislature of Alabama which declared as bodies corporate the organizations known as the “Grand Division of the Order of the Sons of Temperance of the State of Alabama,” and the subordinate divisions under its jurisdiction, by providing that the officers and members then existing, or who shall thereafter become members •of such organizations, shall be declared to' be bodies ■“politic and corporate in name and in deed — -the Grand Division by the name and style of the ‘Grand Division of the Order of the Sons of…
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