Clark v. Watkins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This appeal brings up for review the capacity of a Masonic lodge to take real and personal property bequeathed and devised to it by will.

The question is raised by a demurrer to the petition of plaintiffs in which it was alleged that Warren Henry Crippen, who died in 1927, had executed a will leaving all of his property to Cable lodge, No. 299, of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, located at Arlington, Kan., a charitable, benevolent and fraternal association, and that the will had been duly admitted to probate. It was alleged that…