Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1921, Page 22

oy CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DIRECTORS UPHELD Court Rules They Have Pow- er to Remove Trustee of Publishing Society. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 24.— The su- the master that they never became & corporation is accepted. Authority Under Deed. *“The result_is that the beard of five directors have the power, if they act in accordance with law and with the terms of the trust deed of January 26, 1898, to effect the removal of & ‘trustee under that deed.” Continuing, the court clusion in this aspect wa: contnr‘; to that of the master, but was In effect the application of dilerent legal pri ciples to the facts found by the m: ter. “The facts found by him ars ac- cepted in their which has been from those facts. In its rescript the court says: “Interlocutory decree or decrees to ntirety. The result ed follows in law be entered sustaining the defendants’ exceptions to the master’s report so far as they relate to rulings that directors have no power to remove a trustee under the deed of January 25, 1898, and that the removal of Mr. Rowlands was ineffectulil and other- ‘wise confirming the master's report except those paragraphs relating to the Dittemore-Knott controversy and final decree to be entered dismissing the bilL” i Bill Dismissed. At the end of the decision of thirty- one pages the court says: “The result is that the exceptions of the defendants to the master's re- Jort so far as they relate to his rul- ngs that the directors had no power under the deed of January 25, 1898, to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. remove a trustee and that the re- ‘moval of Mr. Rowlands was ineffec- ‘tual, must be sustained. “On the facts found b.the master, in the light of the principles of law here found to be controlling,. the plaintiffs cannot maintain their bill .“In order to decide the fundamental issues raised in this record it is un- necessary to question whether Mr. Dittemore or Mrs. Knott is a director. ‘That issue is rectly involved In another suit. “The exceptions of Emaline . Hulin have been waived and need not be constdered. “Both _appeals Krauthoft disi “Bill dismissed. A;.f!l.r.ndldn.m 171 QUARTS PICKED UP. —_— Whisky and Gin Taken in Rald, * Arrests Made. Seisure of 181 quarts of whisky ahd forty quarts of gin was_reported by revenye &gents and police of elghth precinct as a result of a raid made at 1610 U street. Patrick J. Mur- phy, thirty-two, residing at the U streat address, was arrested and charged with selling, illegal ‘possession and use of alleged _graudulent _revenue satmps, Louis Hasbrouck, ity-one years old, giving his addr a8 Amherst, 'as arrested and charged with intoxicants. - Lieut. Riley, e selling 0, RURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1921, Sergt. Sullivan, Policemen Poole, Hellmuth and Bellfield and Revenue ent L. 8. Evans conducted the raid. ohn ~Frettoli, thirty-three years old, 214 John Marshall place, an al- leged walking bootlegger, was ar- restea at land avenue and 1st street southwest by Revenue Agent Harold R. 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It held that the directors of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of the Boston (the mother) church have the power to remove a member of the board of trustees of the Christian Sclence Publishing Soclety. It dis- missed the bill brought by the trus- teea to prevent the directors from in- terfering with’ the affairs of the socie Y. The decision in other respects con- firmed the report of Judge Frederic Dodge, who sat hs master in the con- troversy, except that it made no rul- . ing on the question whether John V. ] ” \ a 2 Dittemore, who was removed as & § L director by his fellow members, or Bi] b * Jll" Mrs. Annie M. 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