Supreme Commandery of the Knights of the Golden Rule v. Ainsworth
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. LIeNey C. SpeaKE. This was an action by Sarah M. Ainsworth, widow of S. M. Ainsworth, deceased, against The Supreme Commandery of the Order of the Knights of the Golden Rule, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Kentucky; was founded on an instrument in writing called a “Knight’s Benefit Certificateand was commenced on the 28th March, 1882. The instrument declared on is set out in hcec verba…
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Appeal from Limestone Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. LIeNey C. SpeaKE. This was an action by Sarah M. Ainsworth, widow of S. M. Ainsworth, deceased, against The Supreme Commandery of the Order of the Knights of the Golden Rule, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Kentucky; was founded on an instrument in writing called a “Knight’s Benefit Certificateand was commenced on the 28th March, 1882. The instrument declared on is set out in hcec verba in the complaint, and, omitting the caption and signatures, is in the following words: “ This certifies that the order,…
1Opinion of the CourtBbickell, C. J.
A contract of insurance is defined as “ an agreement by which one party, for a consideration (which is usually paid in money, either in one sum, or at different times during the continuance of the risk), promises to make a certain payment of money, upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest. In fire insurance and marine insurance, the thing insured is property; in life or accident insurance, it is the life or health of a person.” Commonwealth v. Wetherbee, 105 Mass. 149. The instrument in writing upon which this suit is founded, and which is set out…
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