Meade v. Southern Tier Masonic Relief Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Southern Tier Masonic Belief Association, from an order of the Supreme .Court, made' at the BrOome Special Term and entered in the office of the -clerk' of the " county of Chemung on the 9th day of’January, 1907, denying the defendapt’s motion .to vacaté an order for - the' examination of J. Maxwell Beers, the secretary of the defendant, before trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Chester, J.:
' The action -is brought to recover what is claimed to be the amount remaining unpaid on a beneficiary certificate issued -by the defendant association upon the life of one. William Conard for $3,000. He died in November, 1903, and the defendant paid to the beneficiaries under the certificate the sum of $866-.13. Thereafter the executor of the estate of Conard and the beneficiaries under the certificate assigned their right to recover the balance of $2,133,87 to this plaintiff. The action is on the- theory that the defendant fraudulently concealed from Conard the fact that it was…
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