Gilmore v. Supreme Lodge of Loyal Orange Institution

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

Over seventy-five years ago there was instituted an unincorporated association called “Loyal Orange Institution of the United States of America,” which has since been continuously maintained. It was a Protestant society whose avowed object was, inter alia, to foster and maintain the principles established in Great Britain by William of Orange. The association extended into several states where subordinate and state grand lodges were established. There was also a Supreme Grand Lodge, at the meeting of which in 1914 a split unfortunately occurred which divided the…