American Citizens Labor & Protective Institution v. Bandy

Appellee sued appellant, American Citizens’ Labor & Protective Institution, a negro lodge or labor*organization, incorporated for the purposes, among others, of securing suitable employment for its members, of organizing lodges of negro men, women, and children to promote their labor and social interests, the protection of its members' and their dependents; and its charter authorized the use of money accumulated from dues “for the benefit of the membership in the way of relief to members and their families and dependents in case of sickness, accident, death, nonemployment,” etc., upon a…