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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jennie Holt, Appellant, v. Georgia White, as President of Invincible Temple No. 77, Protective Order of Daughter Elks of the World, Respondent.
    
      Associations — expulsion of member — complaint, in action to compel reinstatement, dismissed on ground plaintiff had not exhausted her remedies within the organization.
    
    
      Holt v. White, 221 App. Div. 558, affirmed.
    (Argued June 4, 1928;
    decided June 19, 1928.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered December 22, 1927, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint. Plaintiff was expelled from membership in defendant, a voluntary unincorporated association. The Special Term directed that she be restored to membership. The Appellate Division directed a dismissal of the complaint upon the ground that plaintiff had failed to exhaust her remedies within the association before applying to the courts.
    
      Ruth Whitehead Whaley for appellant.
    
      Hyman Orlean for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.