Floyd v. Medroes

This is an action of assumpsit brought for the sum of $300 which the plaintiff claims the Cigar Makers’ International Union of America, an unincorporated labor union, owes her as the beneficiary of a death benefit or life insurance payable, she contends, by reason of the death of her grandfather, John H. Floyd, a member of that union. Jury trial was waived and the case was heard by a justice of the superior court, who upon the evidence rendered a decision for the defendants. The case is now before this court upon the plaintiff’s exception to that decision.

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