Heffernan v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor

The petition states that the defendant is a benevolent corporation, and that one Martin O. Heffernan, the plaintiff’s son, became its beneficiary member in February, 1884, and received from it a benefit certificate, whereby it agreed to pay two thousand dollars to the plaintiff on the death of the said Martin O. Heffernan; that Martin O. Heffernan continued in defendant’s order until the twenty-eighth of June, 1889, when he died, a member of said order, in good standing, and that *607the defendant thereby became bound to pay to the plaintiff the said sum of two thousand dollars, but, upon demand,…