Boening v. North American Union
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the-Hon. Lockwood Honobb, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908. Statement by the Court. The plaintiff brought this-action to recover as beneficiary $1,000 on a certificate-issued February 23, 1904, to her son, George O. Boening, by a society known as the American Fraternal League.
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Assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the-Hon. Lockwood Honobb, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908. Statement by the Court. The plaintiff brought this-action to recover as beneficiary $1,000 on a certificate-issued February 23, 1904, to her son, George O. Boening, by a society known as the American Fraternal League. This society was on May 2,1904, absorbed by and merged into the defendant, North American Union,, appellant. Shortly after the merger, the defendant notified by letter all the members of the lodge of the-American…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
The case was tried by the court without a jury, and no “written propositions” were submitted to the court “to be held as law in the decision of the case;” nor was any question of- either law or fact raised on the trial by motion or otherwise, except as to rulings on evidence. “Where a case is tried without a jury and no propositions of law are submitted to be held by'the court, it will be presumed that all questions of law were correctly decided.” Davies v. Phillips, 27 Ill. App. 387; Boehm v. Griebenow, 78 Ill. App. 675; Overbeck v. Ahlmeier, 106 Ill. App. 605.
The theory of plaintiff’s case…
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