Alliance Coöperative Insurance v. Gasche

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

This is an action brought by persons claiming to be duly elected • directors and officers of a mutual insurance company' organized under the laws of Kansas, against other persons who are acting in that capacity, the purpose being to determine which of the two sets of claimants is legally entitled to the offices in dispute.

At the annual meeting of the members of the company, held January 13, 1914, a controversy arose as a *148result of which the body divided into two parts, each of which thereafter undertook to elect five directors to succeed five…