People ex rel. Attorney-General v. Dashaway Ass'n

This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto to forfeit the charter of the Dashaway Association, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, and for a judgment declaring that its property escheat to the state; that a receiver be appointed to take possession of all the property; that an injunction issue, etc.

The complaint avers that the object and purpose for which the said corporation was formed was to promote *116 the cause of temperance; that it has no capital stock; that it has members who are elected under provisions of its by-laws; that it has since its incorporation received at various times from its members and others contributions and donations of money for the purpose for which it was incorporated, to wit, the promotion of the cause of temperance, with which moneys it acquired by purchase real estate in the city and county of San Francisco; that in 1883, by leave of the court, it sold certain real estate in said city and countyfor one hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars; that it paid off a mortgage of forty-five thousand dollars,leaving a balance in cash on hand of one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, realized from…