Pearce v. Supreme Lodge, Knights & Ladies of Honor

MOURSÜND, J.

This is a suit by M. A. Pearce against the Supreme Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor, upon an alleged assignment of $212.50 out of $500 due by defendant to Elizabeth Wolff, Edna Wolff, and Charles Wolff on a beneficiary certificate in favor of Herman T. Wolff issued by defendant. Plaintiff alleged that said assignment was made, in writing and verbally, on April 1, 1911, and that on April 4, 1911, he notified Mrs. Augusta Haack and Chas. A. Jenke, agents of defendant, that he held such assignment, and that he subsequently delivered same to them upon their promise to protect him in…