People ex rel. Weiss v. Philip Bernstein Sick & Benefit Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Philip Bernstein Sick and Benefit Society, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of November, 1913, granting relator’s motion for an alternative writ of mandamus requiring appellant to reinstate relator to membership in its society, or to show cause why the command of the writ should not be obeyed and to make return pursuant to law.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The respondent is a domestic membership .corporation, consisting of more than seven members, having been incorporated on or about the 12th day of November, 1893. The moving papers show that the relator has been a member of the society for more than nine years; that on the 8th day of July, 1912, he Was expelled on the ground that he had failed to pay*his dues; that pursuant to the constitution and by-laws as they existed at the time in question, each member was required to pay quarterly dues of three dollars, and the last day for the payment of his current dues was June 24, 1912,…
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