Wolfe v. Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. H. D. Wood, Judge. (1) The court- erred in its instructions to the jury. Barr v. Kansas, 105 Mo. 559 ; Cameron v. Hart, 57 Mo. App. 142; O’Hara v. Aid Soc., 184 Pa. St. 417; Maine Ben. Assn. v. Parks, 81 Me. 79; Whitemore v. K. & L. of H., 100 Mo. 36; Numerich v. K. & L. of H, 3 N. Y. Supp. 552; Cobb v. Ben. Assn., 153 Mass. 176. (2) The court erred in refusing instructions 1, 2, 3 and 4 offered by the defendant.
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Appeal from St Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. H. D. Wood, Judge. (1) The court- erred in its instructions to the jury. Barr v. Kansas, 105 Mo. 559 ; Cameron v. Hart, 57 Mo. App. 142; O’Hara v. Aid Soc., 184 Pa. St. 417; Maine Ben. Assn. v. Parks, 81 Me. 79; Whitemore v. K. & L. of H., 100 Mo. 36; Numerich v. K. & L. of H, 3 N. Y. Supp. 552; Cobb v. Ben. Assn., 153 Mass. 176. (2) The court erred in refusing instructions 1, 2, 3 and 4 offered by the defendant. Aloe v, .Life Assn., 147 Mo. 561; Hanford v. Ben. Assn., 122 Mo, 50; Haney v. Indem. Co., 139 Mo. 416; Jacob v. Life Assn., 142 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
This is an action on a benefit certificate, issued by the defendant, a benevolent organization, by the beneficiaries therein, the mother and grandmother, respectively, of Alexander L. De Mars, deceased, a member of said order, for the amount of said certificate, $3;000.
The case was tried on the issue raised by plaintiffs reply to the affirmative defense set up in defendant’s answer, the allegations in the petition being admitted.
The evidence disclosed that plaintiffs were the mother and grandmother of deceased, the insured, who was a young man about nineteen years old and a brass-worker at…
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