State ex rel. Supreme Lodge Knights v. Vandiver

Relator is a corporation organized as a fraternal beneficiary association under laws enacted by Congress for the District of Columbia, its domicile is that District. It has in its organization an insurance department in which it insures the lives of such of its members as are eligible under its laws and as desire such insurance. It has subordinate lodges established throughout the States and Territories of the United States. The total number of members in all its lodges at the date of the institution of this proceeding was 671,162, of which 81,819' were covered by its life insurance. It has…