Ionic Lodge 72 F. & A. A. M. v. Ionic Lodge Free Ancient & Accepted Masons 72 Co.

The grounds on which Judge Clement acted in reversing the Clerk of the Superior Court were sufficiently made clear in the premises to his judgment and those grounds were: (a) That the unincorporated fraternal society has no capacity to sue or be sued, and having no standing in a court of law and equity, the judgment rendered in its behalf was null and void; and (b) that the defendant corporation with the remarkable appellation, “Ionic Lodge Free Ancient & Accepted Masons #72 Company,” having had its charter suspended by the Secretary of State for nonpayment of revenue tax was thereby deprived…