Hughes v. Wisconsin Odd Fellows' Mutual Line Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. G-. SxebeoKee, Circuit Judge. This action was brought upon .a contract of life insurance, against the defendant, a corporation organized under ch. 43, P. & L. Laws of 1869, and acts amendatory thereof. It was organized to insure the lives of its members upon a mutual plan, similar to that generally adopted by so-called mutual benefit societies.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. G-. SxebeoKee, Circuit Judge. This action was brought upon .a contract of life insurance, against the defendant, a corporation organized under ch. 43, P. & L. Laws of 1869, and acts amendatory thereof. It was organized to insure the lives of its members upon a mutual plan, similar to that generally adopted by so-called mutual benefit societies. Plaintiff’s husband, B. B. Hughes, became a member of the company in 1876, and was insured in the sum of $1,000. He afterwards increased his insurance to th,e. sum of $3,000 by separate…
1Opinion of the CourtEiNNey, J.
1. The principal question presented by this appeal is whether the assured, Hughes, was bound by the *296by-law adopted by the board of directors of the defendant company in February, 1886, after the contract of insurance had been perfected, by which “every certificate of membership shall be and become wholly forfeited and utterly void, and of no binding force and effect whatever upon the company, ... if the insured shall die ... by suicide, felonious or otherwise, sane or insane, or by his or her own hand, in any manner whatever, or under any circumstances other than by accident; . . . and no…
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- Supreme Commandery of the Knights of the Golden Rule v. AinsworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
- Morrison v. Wisconsin Odd Fellows' Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- Stohr v. San Francisco Musical Fund SocietyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
- Fugure v. Mutual Society of St. JosephSupreme Court of Vermont · 1874
- Supreme Lodge K. of P. v. LaMaltaTennessee Supreme Court · 1895
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