Rollins v. Independent Order Bros. & Sisters of Consolation

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action by the named beneficiary of a policy of fraternal insurance. Plaintiff was defeated on the ground that she was disqualified under the statute and under the rules of the defendant society.

In plaintiff’s third amended petition she alleged that for more than ten years she and her husband had a home in Independence, and *167that in October, 1916, one Huston Beasley, an illiterate negro, without a home or family, whose health had failed and who was physically unable to do hard work—

“Appealed to John and Parlee Rollins, his wife,…