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1893 - State Library Information Center

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CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. 447nothing evincing an intention to make fines a lien, either on stockor on property mortgaged for loans. This reference in the bondand mortgage to the constitution and by-laws when read with itscontext can be fairly interpreted only as applying to the mode inwhich the principal of the bond is to be satisfied by the paymentof dues. Such is its apparent, meaning, and it cannot be extendedfurther by construction without holding that it embraces everypossible duty of the obligors as members of the association. Sobroad a construction is unwarranted.We think there is nothing in the contract under which the, payment of fines can be enforced in the present suit. In thisrespect the case resembles ClarhsvilleB. $ L. Asso.v. Stephens, 11C. E. GT. 351, 354. . *The decree below should be modified by eliminating from itthe amount allowed for fines.

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