Vollman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 346. Appeal of George Yollman and J. C. Breitlauch from the decree of the court in the matter of their petition as executors.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 346. Appeal of George Yollman and J. C. Breitlauch from the decree of the court in the matter of their petition as executors. The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen was incorporated by that title by the legislature, March 9th 1871, and by its charter was authorized to create, hold and disburse a beneficiary fund for the relief of the members and their families, of the lodges established by said corporation, under such regulations as might be adopted by it. The corporation adopted what…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered November 17th 1879,
2Per curiam
The appropriation made by Lang of the moneys payable at his death on the beneficiary certificate, could be revoked by him only in the mode appointed in the regulations adopted by the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, by whom it was issued. They had an unquestionable right to make such a regulation. The regulation was that “any member holding a beneficiary certificate desiring at any time to make a new direction as to its, payment, may do so by authorizing such change in writing, on the back of his beneficiary…
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