New York Supreme Court January 15, 1875 (People ex rel. Doyle v. New York Benevolent Society of Operative Masons)

Daniels, J.:

Although it was not distinctly alleged in the affidavits used in support of the application for a peremptory writ of mandamus, that the society was a corporation, they must be accepted as sufficient in that respect, in the disposition of the present appeal, because no objection was made to them, as defective on that account, when the application was heard upon them by the Special