Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Eastis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Horace C. Wilkinson, Judge. Action by Elvins Eastis against the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, under beneficiary life certificate. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Counsel discuss count A, with the insistence that it was subject to the demurrers, but cite no authority.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Horace C. Wilkinson, Judge. Action by Elvins Eastis against the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World, under beneficiary life certificate. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Counsel discuss count A, with the insistence that it was subject to the demurrers, but cite no authority. The defendant was entitled to the affirmative charge. 112 Ya. 678, 72 S. E. 704, 38 L. R. A. (N. S.) 571; 188 111. App. 490; 43 Colo. 489, 96 Pac. 560, 24 L. R. A. (N. S.) 91, 127 Am. St. Rep. 123; 45 Wash. 572, 88 Pac. 1034; 82 Misc. Rep. 79, 143 N. Y.…
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This suit is on a beneficiary certificate issued by defendant mutual benefit society. The trial was had on count A, the general issue, special plea 4, to the effect that at the time of assured’s death the beneficiary certificate was void, and plaintiff’s replications 4 and 5.
Oount A was free from grounds of demurrer assigned; and is in words and figures as follows:
“Plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of $1,100 due by defendant to plaintiff for that heretofore on, to wit, the 11th day of May, 1914, defendant issued a beneficiary certificate to Wm. P. Eastis wherein in substance and legal…
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