Lazensky v. Supreme Lodge K. of H
City of New York Municipal Court
Appeal from trial term. Action by Maria Lazensky against the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor, on a mutual benefit certificate. Defendant appeals from a judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtHehrbas, J.
The action is upon a benefit certificate issued by the defendant to Joseph Lazensky (now deceased) in favor of his wife, the plaintiff, for $2,000, in December, 1881. He was a member of Manhattan Lodge Ho. 1,165, *53K. of II., a subordinate lodge of the defendant. The certificate was payable ■out of the widows’ and orphans’ benefit fund, and, under the constitution and by-laws of the defendant, whenever the amount remaining in the treasury of that fund fell below $2,000, an assessment was levied, of which each subordinate lodge was required to pay its proportionate share, and the latter, in…
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