Schoenau v. Grand Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to reform an instrument of assignment executed by Alexander Schoenau, deceased, of a beneficiary life certificate issued to him by defendant Grand Lodge, and to recover the sum of $1,500 claimed to be due plaintiffs as beneficiaries under said certificate.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to reform an instrument of assignment executed by Alexander Schoenau, deceased, of a beneficiary life certificate issued to him by defendant Grand Lodge, and to recover the sum of $1,500 claimed to be due plaintiffs as beneficiaries under said certificate. The amount of the certificate was paid into court by defendant Grand Lodge for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto, and defendant Louisa Wolf, the original beneficiary named in the certificate, alone appeared and answered. The case was tried before McGee, J., who found in favor of…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
In 1892 one Alexander Schoenau became a member of lodge No. 117, Minneapolis, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and there was issued to him a certificate in which his sister Louisa Wolf was named beneficiary. Mr. Schoenau was a bachelor, and for several years pfior to about twelve months of his death had, most of the time, made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Wolf. About a month before his death, being very ill, he was put in charge of a physician and sent to a hospital, where on April 26, 1900, he died.
As early as April i, Schoenau had expressed a desire to change *351the beneficiary of his…
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