Welch v. Fraternal Aid Union

This is an action to recover the sum of $2000 of the defendant, a fraternal beneficiary association.

' Plaintiff’s petition, in one count, alleges that defendant “issued and delivered to their father, Jefferson W. Welch . . . two certificates or policies of insurance which’ are hereto attached, herewith filed, and marked ‘Exhibit A’ and ‘Exhibit B,’ by the terms of which it . . . promised and agreed therein to pay plaintiffs, on the death of said Jefferson W. Welch, the sum of two thousand dollars.” No Exhibits or Certificates, however, were attached to or filed with the petition.

The defense…