Pulaski v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World

The plaintiff’s former husband, Michael Kacsmar, became a member of the defendant’s order. There was issued by it to him a beneficiary certificate or policy whereby the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff, the beneficiary named in the certificate, a death benefit. This action is brought to recover the amount of that benefit.

The defense interposed is that by the constitution of the defendant, which by express terms of the certificate became a part of the contract between the members and the defendant, the certificate had become null and void.

*741The clause of the constitution relied on reads…