Wilson v. . Order of Heptasophs
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Cline, J., at February Term, 1917, of MECKLENBURG. The defendant, a fraternal benefit society, incorporated in Baltimore, Md., organized in Charlotte, N. 0., a subordinate lodge, in which the plaintiff became a member 3 September, 1896, and took out an insurance policy in the sum of $5,000. He paid the fixed monthly dues of $8.10 each month, and his lodge dues from time to time, until 1 July, 1901, when the defendant raised the rate of the monthly…
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Appeal by defendant from Cline, J., at February Term, 1917, of MECKLENBURG. The defendant, a fraternal benefit society, incorporated in Baltimore, Md., organized in Charlotte, N. 0., a subordinate lodge, in which the plaintiff became a member 3 September, 1896, and took out an insurance policy in the sum of $5,000. He paid the fixed monthly dues of $8.10 each month, and his lodge dues from time to time, until 1 July, 1901, when the defendant raised the rate of the monthly assessments on the entire membership alike, as of the age when each member joined, which caused the monthly dues of the…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Tbe defendant’s counsel, in bis argument, admitted that this same question bad been decided against it in Williams v. Heptasophs (this defendant), 172 N. C., 787, and be asked this Court to review and reverse what was held in that case. Indeed, this case is even stronger in some respects for the plaintiff than in the Williams case, and we think that case was rightly decided. In that case it was said that by virtue of the resolutions adopted 29 October, 1915, which put all the members who joined prior to 1 January, 1914, in a separate class and required them to pay all death losses occurring…
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