White v. Greene
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for a temporary injunction to restrain the defendants from organizing or attempting to organize a subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias, from interfering with the funds, records and property of the plaintiff lodge, and for other relief, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendants.
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Suit for a temporary injunction to restrain the defendants from organizing or attempting to organize a subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias, from interfering with the funds, records and property of the plaintiff lodge, and for other relief, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, Jfacts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendants. The plaintiffs are officers of Rose of the Valley Lodge, No. 1, a subordinate lodge of a fraternal benefit order known as the Knights of Phythias, and the lodge itself as a voluntary…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The complaint alleges that the order of the Supreme Chancellor suspending the plaintiff lodge from the supreme jurisdiction was without right, and unlawful, but it does not expressly deny that the Supreme Chancellor had jurisdiction to issue such an order, and the finding and memorandum of decision of the trial court assumes that the issuance of the order was an act within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Chancellor. In accordance with this assumption, the injunction was not made permanent, but was expressed to remain in force until the next session of the court after the determination of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Morrill v. MorrillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Low v. R. P. K. Pressed Metal Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Gardner v. East Rock Lodge, No. 141Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1921
- Mead v. StirlingSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1892
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- Fine v. WenckeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
- Levine v. Zoning Board of Appeals of MeridenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1938
- Frick v. Hartford Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
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