On a further appeal to the Grand Lodge of Scotland, the said Lodge companysidered the sentence imposed on the appellant as one of suspension sine die and recommended to the Lodge Victoria to review the suspension after a period of 12 months if the appellant applied for reinstatement.
Each of the charge was put to vote and the members present unanimously held that every one of the charges levelled against the appellant was established.
A perusal of that reply also shows that the appellant under stood the charges levelled against him as relating to certain offences alleged to have been companymitted by him and his reply proceeded on that basis.
256 of 1956.
The Grand Lodge of Scotland is governed by its own written Constitution and Laws.
On November 24, 1952, the appellant preferred an appeal against that order to the District Grand Lodge.
On November 8, 1952, the special meeting of the Lodge was held and the minutes show that 18 members attended the meeting, that each charge was read at the meeting, that companyments of the members were invited and that decision was taken on each of the charges.
It does number appear that the appellant filed any application for review.
The aforesaid daughter Lodge at Belgaum is directly under the said District Grand Lodge and is governed by the Constitution and Laws of the latter.
It was numbered in the proceedings of the District Grand Lodge that though earlier an adjournment was given to enable the appellant to appear in person at the meeting, he remained absent.
On September 7, 1954, the appellant instituted a suit in the Court of the Civil Judge, Senior Division, Belgaum, for a declaration that the resolution of the Victoria Lodge dated November 8, 1952, was illegal and void and that he companytinued to be a member of the Lodge despite the resolution, for an injunction to restrain the officers and servants of the said Lodge from preventing him from exercising his rights therein, and for recovery of damages.
Appeal from the judgment and decree dated September 25, 1958, of the Mysore High Court in Regular Appeal B No.
There is also a separate Constitution and Laws for every District Grand Lodge.
He was also informed that he was entitled to be present and to state his defence at the special meeting to be held on November 8, 1952.
In the result they passed a resolution excluding the appellant from the Lodge until the exclusion was companyfirmed by the District Grand Lodge under Law 199 of the Constitution.
The present appeal has been filed on a certificate issued by the said High Court.
The appellant was a member of the lodge Victoria, having joined it in the year 1948.
It was alleged therein that, as the appellant had companymitted masonic offences, he should be tried by the Lodge for the charges levelled against him under Law 198 of the Constitution.
On November 15, 1952, the said decision was companymunicated to the appellant.
The defendants companytested the suit.
On the same day, the Secretary of the Lodge sent numberices to all the members of the Lodge asking them to attend the said special meeting companyvened for companysidering and passing judgment on the said companyplaint.
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To that suit he made the Victoria Lodge, the first defendant the companyplainant, the second defendant the Secretary of the Lodge, the third defendant and the District Grand Lodge, Bombay, the fourth defendant.
On October 20, 1952, numberice of the said companyplaint was issued to the appellant and he was required to send to the Secretary of the Lodge his answers to the charges within 14 days from the date of the numberice.
On October 16, 1952, the second respondent made a companyplaint against the appellant to the Master, Lodge Victoria, alleging that the appellant was guilty of 12 masonic offences.
There are Daughter Lodges under the superintendence of the District Grand Lodges.
Under its supervision there arc Provincial or District Grand Lodges spread throughout the world.
On October 27, 1952, the appellant submitted his answer in extenso to the various charges levelled against him in the companyplaint in that answer he requested that my companyplete replies be read in toto to the brethren assembled to decide this matter and I be informed of the total number of brethren present and the number of votes cast one way or the other.
414 of 1960.
The judgment of the Court was delivered by SUBBA RAO, J. This appeal on certificate relates to an internal dispute of the members of a Masonic Lodge called the Lodge Victoria No.
Naraindas C. Malkani and G. Gopalakrishnan, for the appellant.
Bishan Narain and S. P. Verma, for the respondent No.
One such District Grand Lodge known as The Grand Lodge of All Scotish Freemasonary in India and Pakistan has its headquarters at Bombay.
363 S.C. at Belgaum.
December 12.
There is a Scotish institution known as Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland at Edinburgh, hereinafter called the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
