Ballou v. Sigma Nu General Fraternity

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a national organization “was bound by the acts of its local chapter *** since they were performed within the apparent scope of its authority”
• holding that a national organization \was bound by the acts of its local chapter * * * since they were performed within the apparent scope of its authority\
• concluding that the plaintiff “placed himself at the local chapter’s disposal on hell night only because he wanted to become an active brother” of the national organization
• finding a fraternal organization had a duty to an initiate who had become helplessly drunken from alcohol furnished to him by the fraternity
• finding a fraternal organization had a duty to an initiate who had become helplessly drunken from alcohol furnished to him by the fraternity
• fraternity owes “duty to its initiates not to cause them injury in the process”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).