Peet v. Great Camp of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World

The defendant- is a mutual benefit association, organizing tents or subordinate lodges in all places within the State, for moral, social, and intellectual advancement, and also for the purpose of establishing a benefit fund, from which, on satisfactory evidence of reaching 70 years of age, or of total or permanent disability, of a member who has complied with all of its requirements, or of his death without either of these events having transpired, a sum not exceeding $2,000 shall be paid him, or his widow, children, dependents, mother, father, sister, brother, or betrothed, as he may direct,…