People Ex Rel. A. v. Whitney v. the Masonic Benevolent Ass'n.
Decision Date | 14 May 1881 |
Citation | 1881 WL 10526,98 Ill. 635 |
Parties | THE PEOPLE ex rel. A. V. Whitney et al.v.THE MASONIC BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. |
Court | Illinois Supreme Court |
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This was a petition filed in this court for a writ of mandamus, based upon an agreed statement of facts. Mr. H. P. BUXTON, for the relators.
Messrs. CRAIG & CRAIG, for the respondent.
This was a petition for a peremptory writ of mandamus, to compel the officers of the Masonic Benevolent Society of Central Illinois to declare the adoption of an amendment to the constitution of that body. The following is an agreed statement of facts of the case:
The Masonic Benevolent Association of Central Illinois was organized by the adoption of a constitution on the 28th day of May, 1874, the 13th article of which is:
At the regular annual meeting of the association, held June 11, 1879, the association had 2319 members. At that meeting there were present 41 members in person, and 470 represented by proxy; total, 511. At said meeting the association voted on a proposed amendment to the constitution, and the vote stood 344 for and 137 against the proposed amendment; that none of the members voting proxies were instructed by their principals how the same should be voted, on any question; that one of the members voted 200 proxies in favor of the proposed amendment, for the purpose, as stated by him at the time, of obtaining the opinion of the president as to whether it would take two-thirds of all the members of the association to carry the amendment; that the president decided the amendment was not carried, for the reason that it did not have the votes of two-thirds of all the members of the association in its favor, against which decision relator and others protested, but said member voting said 200 proxies did not protest against said decision.
It is further agreed, that if the court shall be of opinion, under all the facts of the case, that two-thirds of all the members of the association...
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