Robinson v. Yates City Lodge No. 448

Citations

• 86 Ill. 598

Syllabus

<p>1. Masonic lodge—recovery back of initiation fees. A member of a Masonic lodge or other association not for profit, can not, on his expulsion, recover for the initiation fees, voluntarily paid by him, when no fraud is practiced on him. His expulsion does not work a rescission of the contract under which such fees are paid.</p> <p>2. Same — notice of inability to attend tnal. Notice by a member of a. Masonic lodge, when summoned for trial, to the master or principal officer, that he could not be present at the time and place fixed for the trial of the charges, owing to other duties as a public officer, does not of itself oust the lodge of jurisdiction to try such party on the charges at such time and place.</p>