Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias of the World v. Edwards

The appellee sued appellant upon a certificate of membership in its endowment rank, and recovered judgment thereon.

*525The appellant insists that the complaint was> bad on demurrer, because the certificate does not, upon its face, purport to be issued by the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, but rather by the endowment rank of that order, and invokes the familiar principle that where there is a conflict between the complaint and the written contract upon which it is founded, the latter must control. Hines v. Driver, 100 Ind. 315.

The complaint avers that the appellant “issued” to her…