Snow v. Wheeler
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity brought by William A. Snow and five others, on behalf of themselves and other members of the North Brook-field Lodge, No. 28, of the order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Daniel W. Wheeler, Cornelius Duggan, and the People’s Savings Bank of Worcester, to compel the defendants Wheeler and Duggan to draw an order upon the defendant bank to enable the plaintiffs to withdraw from the bank a deposit made by Wheeler and Duggan, in their names as trustees, but…
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Bill in equity brought by William A. Snow and five others, on behalf of themselves and other members of the North Brook-field Lodge, No. 28, of the order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Daniel W. Wheeler, Cornelius Duggan, and the People’s Savings Bank of Worcester, to compel the defendants Wheeler and Duggan to draw an order upon the defendant bank to enable the plaintiffs to withdraw from the bank a deposit made by Wheeler and Duggan, in their names as trustees, but acting as a committee of the lodge. The defendant bank answered, admitting that $770.72 was deposited in the name of “…
1Opinion of the Court
Colt, J.*
This bill is brought on behalf of a voluntary association, the individual members of which are too numerous to be joined as plaintiffs, and it is therefore brought in the name of a few, for themselves and all the other members. Birmingham v, Gallagher, 112 Mass. 190. It is heard upon the pleadings and master’s report.
The individuals named as defendants were members of the as. eociation, and received its funds from the treasurer as a committee chosen to deposit the same for safe keeping in the bank, which is *185named as a co-defendant in the bill. The money was deposited in their names,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Birmingham v. GallagherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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