Bryan v. Moncrief Furnace Co.

Bryan brought suit against Monerief Furnace Company and Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, both being corporations, for the recovery of damages for a personal injury. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a corporation without capital stock, and is a secret organization. Upon the call of said cause for trial in the superior court, counsel for the plaintiff requested the court to purge the jury of all members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which motion the court overruled, and forced counsel for the plaintiff to strike the jury without purging therefrom members of such Klan. The case proceeded to…