Badger v. Aeolian Council No. 17

Citations

• 39 Pa. Super. 406
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 501

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial associations — Members—Expulsion of members — Trial.</p> <p>Where a member of a subordinate council of a beneficial association is charged with violating the constitution and by-laws of the association, and disloyalty to it, and is summoned for trial before the tribunal established by the laws of the association, and he appears and makes defense and is adjudged guilty, and the subordinate council is directed to expel him, and this order is ultimately obeyed without the member having taken any appeal, or asking for a retrial, such member has no standing to maintain a mandamus suit in a civil court to secure his reinstatement. In such a case it is immaterial that the subordinate council at first refused to obey the order directed to it, and separated itself, from the general association, if it appears that the subordinate council subsequently secured its reinstatement with the name of the expelled member dropped from its roll of membership.</p>