Stiles v. Des Moines Council Boy Scouts of America

The appellee, a minor, was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, an organization, national in scope, for the upbuilding of character and training in citizenship of male youths of this country. He had assiduously applied himself in the activities of the organization, and had been advanced from the lowest to the highest rank of Boy Scouts. The branch of nati°nal organization in charge of the activities in Des Moines, Iowa, and contiguous territory, was a corporation under the name of Des Moines Council of Boy Scouts of America, having been incorporated under Title IX, Chapter 2, of the Code,…