Sons of Italy Grand Lodge, Inc. v. The Supreme Lodge of the Sons of Italy

This is an application by the plaintiff, a

membership corporation, for an injunction restraining the corporate defendant from carrying into effect a certain suspension and expulsion order. While there are several parties plaintiff and defendant, the dispute is essentially between the corporate plaintiff and the corporate defendant. The present litigation is an outgrowth of a controversy that has occupied the attention of the courts since 1925. In that year the plaintiff, as a State organization of the defendant, a National fraternal order, attempted to secede from its jurisdiction, basing the…