Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania court transcript of case between the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and Cerneau body, 1944

This court case between the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, and the officers and members of Pilgrim Lodge, No. 189, and Allentown Consistory, No. 46, was heard before Judge James Gay Gordon, Jr. in the Common Pleas Court No. 2 of the 1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania on Monday, March 13, 1944. The members of these two bodies are the following: John Alden Johnson, Albert W. Hawk, Milton E. Everett, Willard Arner, and Clayton Schleicher. These two bodies are accused of being irregular or clandestine bodies in the eye of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Officers of the Supreme Council listed in the brief are the following: Melvin M. Johnson, Delmar D. Darrah, John S. Wallace, Robert J. Arnett, and Samuel H. Baynard, Jr. The two volumes are the court transcripts of the trial.