Neff v. Pennsylvania Daughters of Liberty

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 251
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 399

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Beneficial associations — Expulsion of member— Tribunal of the association — Equity—Jurisdiction.</p> <p>A court of equity has jurisdiction to entertain a bill praying for a decree to reinstate to membership a person who is alleged to have been wrongfully expelled from a beneficial association.</p> <p>Where the by-laws of the beneficial association provide proper tribunals to pass upon the question of the expulsion of members, members must resort to such tribunal, and if the proceedings before the tribunal are conducted in conformance with the by-laws, and without fraud, the judgment of the tribunal is final and conclusive; and a member who has been expelled by such judgment cannot thereafter maintain a bill in equity for reinstatement.</p>