Webster v. Welch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Stella Maria Welch, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of tlie plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 6th day of November, 1899, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Erie Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The action, as it was tried, was to determine the rights of appellant and respondent in a fund in the hands ■ of the Supreme Coun*559cil of Royal Templars of Temperance (a mutual benefit insurance corporation). The action was brought to recover of the corporation the fund alleged to be due and owing from the corporation upon a certificate held by one Thomas Thompson, as a member, at the time of his death. The appellant was made a party defendant, because she claimed to be the real beneficiary and entitled to the fund, instead of the plaintiff, respondent.
The corporation did not…
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