Grand Lodge, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Nolan

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson —

Reversing.

Appellee Nolan is by this action, instituted, in the Boyle circuit court striving to recover of the Grand Lodge, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a secret and fraternal beneficial society, $2,000.00 on a benefit certificate issued to Mm as a member of such order. The court below granted the relief sought by Nolan, and the brotherhood appeals.

From an agreed statement of facts we learn on October 10, 1917, appellee Nolan, while employed as switch-man in the yards of a railroad company at Richmond, Indiana, and while in the performance of his…