Ivanhoe Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. v. Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons

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• where plaintiff unincorporated association neither alleged nor proved that it had capacity to maintain action, trial court “was without jurisdiction to proceed and should have dismissed the proceeding”
• “Actions may be brought only by legal entities and against legal entities. There must be some ascertainable persons, natural or artificial, to whom judgments are awarded and against whom they may be enforced.”

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