Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. Hermione Lodge No. 16, Knights of Pythias

SIMPSON, Justice.

This litigation originated by a bill in equity by Hermione Lodge No. 16, Knights of Pythias of Decatur, Alabama, a body corporate, and two of its members suing in behalf of all the members against the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of the Grand Domain of Alabama, also a body corporate. The purpose of the bill was to establish complainants’ right and title to assets held by the local lodge as against any purported -claim of the defendant Grand Lodge upon the theory that said local lodge, as a corporation, had become defunct and dissolved and that its remaining assets under…