Servoss v. Western Mutual Aid Society

The cause was submitted in the circuit court on an agreed statement of facts, by which it was shown that defendant is a mutual association, organized for the purpose of insuring the lives of its members, and on the tenth day of June, 1882, it issued to George Servoss, who was plaintiff’s husband, a certificate of membership, by which it bound itself, in consideration of the payment by him of an admission fee of twelve dollars, and the payment on the first day of December of each year of a further sum not exceeding five dollars, and the payment on or before maturity of such benefit assessments…