Coffey v. the MacCabees

Opinion by

Gawthbop, J.,

This is an action on a beneficial certificate. Defendant is a fraternal beneficiary association which carries on its operations through a supreme lodge and subordinate lodges, and as such issued a certificate of membership to John H. Coffey in 1890, reciting, inter alia, that “Ms legal beneficiary named herein is entitled to receive one assessment on the membership., but not exceeding in amount the sum of two thousand dollars, and the said sum will be paid as a benefit to Johanna Coffey, his mother, upon satisfactory proof of his death, together with the surrender of…