Manning v. Shoemaker

Citations

• 7 Pa. Super. 375
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 307

Syllabus

<p>Unincorporated association — Properl// rights — Retiring members.</p> <p>Members of a religious society may voluntarily withdraw from it and enter another more consonant with their views, but when they do so they must be considered as abandoning to the adherents of the original constitution their rights to the property of the society when they leave.</p> <p>Articles of association — Binding effect on members.</p> <p>As between members, the articles of association are the fundamental rules by which the character of the association is to be determined.</p> <p>A ladies’ society organized in aid of a church but entirely independent of its control,-is not affected in its properly or membership rights by ecclesiastical secession of its members individually from the church proper. The disposition of the property of the society is properly to be made by a majority of its members in obedience to the articles of association.</p>