Perrigo v. Connecticut Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Ass'n

The trial court was undoubtedly justified by the broad language of the decision in Coughlin v. Knights of Columbus, 79 Conn. 218, 64 Atl. 223, in directing a verdict for the defendant. In that association, as in this, a custom of accepting belated payments of assessments in disregard of the by-laws prevailed; such payments being made to and accepted by the secretaries of local councils and by them turned over to the national secretary who, with other officers of the order, knew of and acquiesced in the practice; and the relevant by-laws of the Knights of Columbus were practically the same as…