Railway Passenger & Freight Conductors Mutual Aid & Benefit Ass'n v. Robinson

This was a bill in chancery by appellee against appellant, to compel an assessment upon the members of tlio association to pay benefits to appellee on account of the death of one James E. Eobinson, who held a certificate of membership in the appellant association.

There was a decree according to the prayer of the bill, from which an appeal is prosecuted to this court. The first question is as to the action of the court in overruling the defendant’s plea, by which was presented the objection to the jurisdiction that the suit was instituted in the county of Sangamon, and process of summons was…