Simmons v. Western Life Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cass District Court. — Hon. E. B'. Woodruff, Judge. Action in equity to reinstate a certificate of life insurance alleged to have been surrendered or exchanged, and to recover the amount of indemnity ■ therein provided for. A demurrer to the original petition having been sustained, and an amended and substituted petition having been stricken from the files, the plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
— The force and effect of the rulings of which appellants complain will be more readily understood if we preface their discussion with the statement of certain facts alleged in the pleadings and conceded in the argument. In the year 1886, Johnson H. Needles became a member of the defendant life insurance association, receiving a certificate of membership by the terms of which, in the event of his death while still in good standing in the association, certain benefits were to be paid» to his beneficiaries. In the year 1903, the association, for reasons not necessary now to discuss, adopted the…
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