Iota Alumnae, Inc. v. Cornell University

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Ellison, J.), entered December 14,1981 in Tompkins County, which granted defendant Iota House Corporation of Kappa Alpha Theta’s motion for summary judgment and denied plaintiff’s cross motion for the same relief. From 1920 to July 1965, Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, Inc. (Iota), a nonprofit corporation, owned real property in Ithaca, New York. There resided the active membership of the Iota Chapter of a national sorority, defendant Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity (the national). In 1960, the national instructed Iota to amend its…