Hope of Alabama Lodge of Odd Fellows v. Chambless

The suit is by a corporation to quiet title, and for an accounting against an alleged joint owner. The answer and cross-bill denied the joint ownership, and set up a chain of title from J. S. Pinckard to and from trustees of the Odd Fellows, an unincorporated fraternal association not of a business nature, and facts of a changed statu quo that would prevent the complainant denying the trusteeship and defendant’s title therefrom.

The proper predicate being laid for the introduction of parol evidence, tendencies of' evidence were presented to the effect that the first named trustees of said…