Berkhout v. Supreme Council Royal Arcanum

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

The plaintiff below, Cornelia Berkhout, brings this action to recover the sum of $3,000, which she claims is due to her as the beneficiary named in a certificate of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life' of one Jacobus Berkhout, deceased, who, at the time of the issuing of the certificate, was a member of the defendant society.

By the terms of the certificate the defendant bound itself, upon certain conditions to which it is not necessary to refer, to pay to the said plaintiff, who was Berkhout’s wife, the amount named, at his…