Sporl v. Southern Yacht Club

Citations

• 12 Teiss. 44
• 1914 La. App. LEXIS 115

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>The charter and by-laws of a club are the law between the club and its members, and their rights between themselves are to be determined by them. The by-laws of the defendant club provide that the race committee should have charge of the races, and should decide all questions that may arise in sailing races, and should have power to order any race to be resailed at its discretion, and should have full charge of ' all matters pertaining to the awarding of prizes, and should decide all questions arising in any race. Under these bylaws the race committee as a whole was alone authorized to decide upon the winner of a race, and no single member alone had said right. The decision of the committee rendered in accordance with the by-laws ordering a resail of the race, for reasons sufficient to itself, and its decision that ■a certain yacht won the race, is final and binding upon the members contesting in the race.</p> <p>The decision of the committee cannot be reviewed by any other body, not even by the Courts, in the absence of a charge of fraud or of glaring injustice. The race committee was the tribunal selected by the parties and its decision was not subject to appeal.</p>