What a Hutterite Gets When He Leaves the Colony

Sometimes, when a man decides to leave a Hutterite colony, he comes to my office first. He wants to know what he is owed. I keep the books, and I have to give him the answer the Supreme Court of Canada gave in 1970. I'm Andreas Wurz, bookkeeper on a Lehrerleut Hutterite colony in southern Alberta. In this video: what a Hutterite actually owns, and the two court cases that tested it. The first ended at the Supreme Court in 1970. The second started with a hog feeder, reached the Supreme Court in 1992, and ended with one branch of our church split in half. INSIDE - Why there is no line in a colony ledger with a man's name on it - Interlake Colony, the Radio Church of God, and Hofer v. Hofer (1970) - "The liberty to bind himself", and the judge who disagreed - Lakeside Colony, Daniel Hofer and the hog feeder - "He was told he was expelling himself" - The Supreme Court's answer in 1992: notice - Why winning did not help, and how the Schmiedeleut split - What I tell a man who stands at my desk with one bag Tell me in the comments: if you grew up on a place like this and decided to leave, should you be owed a share of what you helped to build? Or is a promise a promise? SOURCES Hofer v. Hofer, [1970] S.C.R. 958 (Supreme Court of Canada) https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1970/1970canlii161/1970canlii161.html Lakeside Colony of Hutterian Brethren v. Hofer, [1992] 3 S.C.R. 165 (Supreme Court of Canada) https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1992/1992canlii37/1992canlii37.html Alvin J. Esau, "The Judicial Resolution of Church Property Disputes: Canadian and American Models," Alberta Law Review 40:4 (2003) https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/download/1341/1330/1452 Alvin J. Esau, The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes (UBC Press) https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-courts-and-the-colonies Royden Loewen, review of The Courts and the Colonies, Manitoba History 52 (2006) https://mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/52/hutteritelitigation.shtml Christianity Today, "Hutterites Use Courts against Dissident" (1990) https://christianitytoday.com/ct/1990/march-19/canada-hutterites-use-courts-against-dissident.html Jeff Longhofer, Journal of Mennonite Studies: Crystal Spring, the hog feeder patent, hog earnings and the 1982 loan losses https://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/download/363/363 Gabriel Rauterberg, "The Treatment of Isolationist Minorities," Yale Law School https://openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/e6bd8048-dfc2-48eb-a346-d777895a2396/content No court decided who invented the hog feeder. Daniel Hofer's claims are given as his claims. About the narrator: Andreas Wurz is a composite character. His voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.