Brown v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Francois Circuit Court. — Son. James D. Fox, Judge. (1) The agreement in the application and in the certificate of membership, or policy sued on, that the same was subject to a full compliance on the part of the deceased with all the laws governing the endowment rank, then in force, or that might thereafter be enacted, is valid and binding. Daughty v. Knights of Pythias, 48 La.
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Appeal from the St. Francois Circuit Court. — Son. James D. Fox, Judge. (1) The agreement in the application and in the certificate of membership, or policy sued on, that the same was subject to a full compliance on the part of the deceased with all the laws governing the endowment rank, then in force, or that might thereafter be enacted, is valid and binding. Daughty v. Knights of Pythias, 48 La. Ann. 1203; Supreme Lodge V; LaMalta, 95 Tenn. 157; Supreme Commandery v. Ainsworth, 71 Ala. 436; Toomey v. Supreme Lodge, 74 Mo. App. 517; Supreme Lodge v. Stein, 75 Miss. 107; Domes v. Supreme…
1Opinion of the CourtBig Gs, J.
The plaintiff is the widow of W. C. Brown. She sues on a benefit certificate issued by the defendant order on the life of her husband for the sum of two thousand *638dollars. The certificate was issued in 1889. In 1896 the defendant adopted a by-law that if the death of a member of the order holding a certificate of insurance “shall result from suicide, either voluntary or involuntary, whether such member shall be sane or insane at the time, or if such death shall be caused or superinduced by the use of intoxicating liquors, narcotics or opiates, or in consequence of a duel or at the hands of…
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