Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. v. Monmouth Pleasure Club Ass'n

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court dismissing the bill of complaint.

The plaintiff, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Georgia and is without capital stock. The defendant the Monmouth Pleasure Club Association, Inc., is a corporation of the state of New Jersey.

The plaintiff alleges that it is a benevolent, religious, and charitable institution, not organized for profit, but authorized to confer an initiative degree and promulgate secret obligations, words, grips, and signs, and to organize…