People ex rel. Meads v. Alpha Lodge, No. 1
New York Supreme Court
Wbit of alternative mandamus, involving issues of fact arising upon the denial in the return of material allegations of the writ, tried before the court without a jury, by consent, Hay 2, 1895, and afterwards submitted upon written points. The object of the writ is to compel the defendants to restore the relator to membership in said association, upon the ground that his expulsion therefrom was illegal and void.
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The defendant, Alpha Lodge of the Knights of Sobriety, Fidelity & Integrity, is a corporation organized under the act relating to fraternal and beneficiary societies, and the other defendants are officers of the order. Laws 1889, chap. 520, p. 711. The object of the organization, as *678declared in its constitution, “ is to combine the efforts of all its members with the view to efficient mutual relief, aid and systematic contributions of benevolence and charity during their lifetime, and to their respective families, from time to time, when rendered necessary by disability or death.” It consists…
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