Creswill v. Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the right of two associations to use the name “Knights of• Pythias” and to be incorporated thereunder in one of the States, are stated in the opinion. Defendants in error are not entitled to the relief sought, on account of their own acquiescence in the use by the plaintiffs in error of the name under which they were chartered.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the right of two associations to use the name “Knights of• Pythias” and to be incorporated thereunder in one of the States, are stated in the opinion. Defendants in error are not entitled to the relief sought, on account of their own acquiescence in the use by the plaintiffs in error of the name under which they were chartered. They could have made the question in 1880, when the first lodge was organized, and subsequently in 1886, when the first subordinate lodge was organized in Georgia, and in 1889 when the charter was granted…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
A secret fraternal and benevolent order known as the Knights of Pythias was organized as a voluntary association in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1864. Pursuant to the authority conferred by an act of Congress approved May 5, 1870 (16 Stat. 98, c. 80), authorizing the formation of corporations in the District of Columbia, *249the persons composing the Supreme Lodge, the governing body of the order, became incorporated as the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias by filing in the proper office the certificate required by the act. Among other things required to be stated in the certificate was…
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