Venus Lodge No. 62 v. Acme Benevolent Ass'n

The chief inquiry presented by the appeal is whether the evidence of the plaintiffs is legally sufficient to take the case to the jury and to support a verdict in their favor. Ballard v. Ballard, 230 N.C. 629, 55 S.E. 2d 316.

Since the code of the Grand Lodge did not undertake to impose any restraint upon the alienability of the property of Venus Lodge or its members so long as Venus Lodge was an active subordinate lodge, and since there has never been any “suspension or demise” of Venus Lodge, the Grand Lodge has never had any semblance of claim to the property in suit, and is without…