Shields v. Supreme Council

This case arises out of the following facts:

Gustav Shields, for some thirty years a member of the Cleveland Council of the Royal Arcanum, a fraternal benefit society, died in Cleveland, Ohio, upon December 21, 1925. For a number of years Shields had been in poor health, and his dues and assessments in the order had been paid by his son and daughter, who jointly contributed the necessary amounts. For some three years prior to the in stitution of the action, the dues and assessments in question had been remitted to the collector of the Cleveland Council at Cleveland, Ohio, by Clara Shields…