Legal Opinion
Di Silvestro v. Sons of Italy Grand Lodge
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 14, 1927PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wheeler, Charles B., Official Referee.
These different lodges, supreme, grand and district, are known and designated by names or titles in the Italian language. For convenience, however, in discussing this case the referee has and will refer to them by their equivalent in the English tongue, and call the parent or Supreme Lodge, the National Lodge or Order, the Grand Lodge as the State or Grand Lodge, and the lodge next below as the District Lodge.
The litigation resolves itself into a struggle for control between two distinct parties in the order.
One, if not the main question, to be decided in…
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