Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Loyal Orange Institution v. Snow

These are appeals of both parties from a final decree, and by the plaintiff from an interlocutory decree, of the Superior Court overruling the plaintiff’s exceptions to and confirming the master’s report. The final decree dismissed the bill and ordered that the cross claims contained in the defendants’ answer be dismissed.

The plaintiff is a Massachusetts corporation, and brought the suit against three individual defendants seeking to have them enjoined from using in Massachusetts the plaintiff’s corporate name and from representing themselves to be officers of the corporation. There was also…