People ex rel. Meads v. McDonough
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, George A. McDonough, as commander of Alpha Lodge, Mo. 1, of the Order of the Knights of Sobriety, Fidelity and Integrity, and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 2d day of January, 1896, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Onondaga Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Vann, J.
All concurred.
The opinion of Vann, J., was as follows:
Vann, J.:
The defendant, Alpha Lodge Mo. 1 of the Knights of Sobriety, Fidelity and Integrity, is a corporation organized under the act relating to fraternal and beneficiary societies, and the other defendants are • officers of the order. (Laws of 1889, chap. 520, p. 711.) The object of the organization, as declared in its constitution, “ is to combine the efforts of all its members with the view to efficient mutual relief, aid and systematic contributions of benevolence, and charity,…
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