Sherwin v. Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks

The Elks club house was erected as a permanent home of the Brooklyn lodge, which, in addition to being a fraternal order, offered its members social attractions, and which equipped a part of the club house for sleeping quarters, gymnasium purposes, Hbrary, and restaurant uses. In addition, it offered facifities for pubHc and semi-pubfic functions, the use of the kitchen and" restaurant being coupled therewith. The latter use of the property very evidently was devised with the object, not only of making the club house more attractive to its members and their friends and to the pubfic at large,…