Grand Lodge Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World v. Eureka Lodge No. 5, Independent Elks

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff is the grand lodge of the colored fraternal order which was before this court as plaintiff in the case of Grand *47Lodge of Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World v. Grand Lodge, Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, Inc., et al., 4 Cir., 50 F.2d 860. Prior to 1939, Eureka Lodge No. 5 was one of its local lodges at Norfolk, Va. As a result of a controversy, the connection between this local lodge and the plaintiff grand lodge was definitely severed in the Summer of 1939, plaintiff claiming that the charter of the…