Caudell v. Woodward
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 107 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The charters of benefit societies govern as to who may be beneficiaries. The question of insurable interest has no place in questions of this nature. The benefit certificate is in the nature of a devise. (Duvall v. Goodson, 79 Ky.; Ky. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Miller, 13 Bush, 494; Gaines v. Ky. Grangers’ Mutual Benefit Society, 11 Ky. Law Rep., 580; Masonic Ben.
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Case 107 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The charters of benefit societies govern as to who may be beneficiaries. The question of insurable interest has no place in questions of this nature. The benefit certificate is in the nature of a devise. (Duvall v. Goodson, 79 Ky.; Ky. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Miller, 13 Bush, 494; Gaines v. Ky. Grangers’ Mutual Benefit Society, 11 Ky. Law Rep., 580; Masonic Ben. Asso. v. Bunch, 19 S. W., 25; Yan Bibber v. Van Bibber, 82 Ky.) '2. If it were necessary that there should be an. insurable interest to uphold this certificate, the…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the opinion of the corrRT.
Mrs. Matilda Woodward, deceased, was a member .of tlie United Order of the Golden Cross, a benevo*649lent institution, organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, but a subordinate commandery of which had been organized at Louisville. The purpose of the order was to unite, fraternally, persons of every honorable profession, business, &c., to give moral and material aid to the members, and to establish a benefit fund, out of which, upon the death of a member, a sum of not exceeding two thousand dollars should be paid in accordance with the…
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