Sons of Italy, Grand Lodge, Inc. v. Supreme Lodge of Sons of Italy in America, Inc.

Levy, J.:

It appears that the officers of the national organization, through its supreme orator, an official corresponding to a prosecuting attorney, filed certain charges against the officers of the State organization for alleged failure to use a certain newly adopted membership application blank alleged to have been adopted by resolution at the last national convention of the order. The trial of these charges before the supreme arbitration committee was set for June 27, 1925.

This body has original jurisdiction to try charges against grand officers, the title by which the functionaries of the…