Austin v. Most Worshipful Grand Lodge F. &. A. Masons

June 27, 1887, appellee, The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Arkansas (hereinafter referred to as the Grand Lodge), was incorporated and chartered under § 2252 et seq. of Pope’s Digest, and since has existed as a colored Grand Lodge.

October 1, 1891, it established, as a part of its beneficial work, what it was pleased to call the Masonic Benefit Association, which existed as its insurance branch until in March, 1933.

There had accumulated in what is called the mortuary fund of the Masonic Benefit Association (the insurance branch) a substantial…