Supreme Commandery of the United Order of the Golden Cross v. Merrick

This is a bill of interpleader brought by a fraternal order to have it determined to whom shall be paid a fund due under a benefit certificate issued to a member now deceased. It is stated in the bill that before the issue of the present certificate another one had been held by the member Clementine N. Towne, in which one Hye and others, brothers and sisters of the member and her next of bin, were named as beneficiaries, but that that certificate was surrendered and the present one issued in its place. The beneficiaries named in the present certificate are Joseph W. and Emma I. Chase. The…