State Ex Rel. Security Benefit Assn. v. Shain.

This is a proceeding in certiorari seeking to quash the opinion of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in Wilhelm v. The Security Benefit Association, 104 S.W.2d 1042, which was a suit upon an insurance certificate issued by relator to Arthur F. Geiler.

The answer stated that defendant (relator) was a Kansas fraternal benefit society duly licensed in Missouri. Its defenses were that Geiler committed suicide, and that plaintiff was not entitled to recover as a beneficiary because not related to or dependent upon him as required by Section 5995, Revised Statutes 1929. The Court of Appeals found…