Allnutt v. Subsidiary High Court of the United States Ancient Order of Foresters

Campbell, O. J.

Relator complains that he has been ’unlawfully suspended from membership in Court City of the Straits, which is an incorporated society of the order of Forresters, organized originally under affiliation with the general ■system of societies of that brotherhood, and obtaining corporate powers under the general statute for benevolent associations. He asks a mandamus to restore him, and the Subsidiary High Court is impleaded as the superior body under whose order the alleged wrong was done.

It appears from the showing on both sides that the Forester associations, which originated…