Jones v. District Grand Lodge No. 18

1. It being conceded that the defendant is to be treated as an ordinary corporation, the evidence was sufficient to authorize the conclusion of the trial judge, upon the issues of fact submitted to him 'without the intervention of a jury, that the officers of the local iodge were in no sense agents of the defendant. This being true, the city court of Savannah was without jurisdiction. Civil Code, § 2259. The action was on a contract, and there was no evidence that the defendant, which had its principal office in Eulton county, had an office and transacted business in Chatham county. General…