Blakeman v. Harwell

Grice, Justice.

The Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children, a corporation, is a party to this ease, is a legatee under the will, and is directly and substantially interested in the outcome of the litigation. Counsel for the plaintiff in error, in a motion reciting that the hospital is controlled and partly supported by the fraternal order known as Scottish Rite Masons, suggests that under such circumstances, any Justice of this court "who is a Scottish Rite Mason, or a Mason according to any other rite or degree whatever, is disqualified by interest and ought not to sit in the cause.” To…