Morse v. Commercial Travellers' Eastern Accident Ass'n

This is a bill in equity by the administrator of the estate of Frank F. Morse to compel the assessment by the defendant on its members surviving at the death of the intestate of the sum of $2 each, and from the sum so realized to compel the payment to the plaintiff, for the benefit of Elizabeth G. Morse, the beneficiary named in the certificate of membership in the defendant association which the deceased held at the time of his death, of the amount realized therefrom not exceeding $5,000. There was a decree * dismissing the bill and the plaintiff appealed.

The deceased came to his death by…