Most Worshipful Sons of Light Grand Lodge v. Sons of Light Lodge No. 9

All defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs. However, it is the appeal of defendant Pride of Richmond Lodge Number 14 Building Corporation which is solely urged.

Questions Presented

1. Propriety of court’s action in permitting complaint to be amended seven years after its filing, and in overruling demurrer thereto and denying motion to strike the amended complaint.

2. Sufficiency of evidence to support judgment.

3. Is the action barred by statutes of limitation and laches ?

4. Did the San Francisco Superior Court have jurisdiction ?

Record

In Most Worshipful Lodge v. Sons etc. Lodge, supra, 118 Cal.App.2d at page 80, we said “this case seems to be confusion worse confounded.” This is the same case, and the confusion is more so. We there held, among other matters, that the members of Pride of Richmond Lodge Number 74, jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Sons of Light Grand Lodge, who seceded therefrom and formed a new lodge, Pride of Richmond Number 14, jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge, had no right to take with them the assets of Lodge Number 74. The original complaint in this action was filed August 14,1946. March 27,1947, an…