Ex parte Norrish
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 12 July 1821 |
| Date | 12 July 1821 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 37 E.R. 811
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
Ex parte norrish. Rolls. July 12, 1821. The Court has no jurisdiction on petition in the case of a Friendly Society, where they have ceased to act on the rules allowed and filed pursuant to the statute. This was a petition under the statute 33 Geo. 3, c. 54, praying that J. Petrie, late one of the trustees of a friendly society, might be ordered to transfer and pay over some, funds in his hands, to a new trustee appointed in his stead. The society had been formed in the year 1795 ; the rules had afterwards been altered, and in the year 1813, they were allowed at the Quarter Sessions, and filed with the Clerk of the Peace, pursuant to the act. Soon after that time, some dissatisfaction with the conduct of the officers had arisen, and a committee was appointed for the regu- 812 HILL V. KTRWAN JACOB, 163. lation of the affairs of the society. It appeared that since that time the rules had not been attended to ; meetings had not been hold, or payments made, and officers had not been regularly appointed. Petrie stated that the new trustee had not been chosen according to the rules, and imputed to the other parties various acts of extravagant waste of the funds. Mr. Barber...
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