IONIC LODGE NO. 72 v. IONIC LODGE FREE A. & A. M. NO. 72 CO.

No. 750.

59 S.E.2d 829 (1950)

IONIC LODGE NO. 72, F. & A. A. M., v. IONIC LODGE FREE ANCIENT & ACCEPTED MASONS NO. 72 CO. et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elledge & Browder, Eugene H. Phillips, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellant.

Ingle, Rucker & Ingle, Winston-Salem, for defendants-appellees.


SEAWELL, Justice.

The grounds on which Judge Clement acted in reversing the Clerk of the Superior Court were sufficiently made clear in the premises to his judgment and those grounds were: (a) That the unincorporated fraternal society has no capacity to sue or be sued, and having no standing in a court of law and equity, the judgment rendered in its behalf was null and void; and (b) that the defendant corporation with the remarkable appellation, "Ionic Lodge Free...

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