Tyler v. Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed March 25,1887, by Eckford W. Tyler, a minor, who appeared by his guardian, Reuben Waterman, against the Odd Fellows’ Mutual Relief Association and Ruetta A. Mas-sure, to compel the defendant association to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $1500. The case was heard in the Superior Court, by Dewey, J., and reserved for the consideration of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Before July 16, 1880, L. E. Tyler, the plaintiff’s father, had become a member of classes A and O of the defendant association, and had designated his wife, Etta A. Tyler, now Ruetta A. Massure, one of the defendants, as his beneficiary in class A, and his son, the plaintiff, as his beneficiary in class C, and thereby each of said beneficiaries became entitled, under the association’s incorporation and its by-laws, to receive, after his death, the sum of $1000.
On February 4, 1885, his wife obtained a divorce from him for his fault, and the first question in the case is whether she thereby…
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