Smith v. South Slavonic Catholic Union

Lively, President:

Defendant is a fraternal benefit society incorporated and organized for the purpose of promoting the welfare of its members, render aid to them when sick or injured, and to pay to the heirs of a deceased member a mortuary benefit. Plaintiff, who had been a member in good standing since 1909, was suspended and expelled in the year 1922, and it is of this expulsion that he complains in this suit, alleging damages because his policy contract of life insurance for $1,000 was thereby cancelled, and being of advanced age, he cannot now obtain life insurance of like kind and value.…