Babb v. Reed
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the court of Common Pleas of Chester county, distributing money arising from sheriff’s sale. The material facts were as follows:— About the beginning of the year 1832 a number of individuals in and about West Chester associated under the name of the West Chester Lodge, No. 42, of the independent order of Odd Fellows.
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Appeal from the decree of the court of Common Pleas of Chester county, distributing money arising from sheriff’s sale. The material facts were as follows:— About the beginning of the year 1832 a number of individuals in and about West Chester associated under the name of the West Chester Lodge, No. 42, of the independent order of Odd Fellows. On the 28th day of March, 1832, Babb and wife by a deed of that date conveyed a lot of ground in West Chester to the defendants, Reed and others, who are styled therein trustees on behalf of West Chester Lodge, No. 42 of the Independent order of Odd…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Sergeant J.
The association, from whose property the moneys in court proceeded, was formed and conducted without incorporation. Its objects are stated to be, the employment of its funds in purposes of mutual benevolence, amongst its members and their families; but these cannot be deemed charitable uses under the common law of Pennsylvania or the statute 43 Elizabeth. The twenty-one cases enumerated in the statute, and the others constructively within it, are of a public nature, tending to the benefit or relief, in some shape or other, of the community…
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