Scheu v. Grand Lodge, Ohio Division

The plaintiff is the wife and heir at law of Albert Scheu, who died on the second day of April, 1880. The intestate, on the sixteenth day of December, 1879, became a member of Sahbeie Lodge, a subordinate lodge of the defendant, and thereby, by the constitution and by-laws, became a member of the defendant lodge. The suit is to recover the sum of $1,000, provided by the by-laws to be paid the widow or heirs of a member on his death. The defendant claims that Scheu, at the time of his death, was not such a member of the subordinate or grand lodge as entitled his widow to recover said amount,…