Jeane v. Grand Lodge, Ancient Order United Workmen
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was an action of assumpsit to recover the sum of $2000, by the plaintiff who is the widow of Harry J. Jeane, and the beneficiary named in his application for membership and insurance in Lakeside Lodge No. 43, located at Jefferson, Knox county, a subordinate lodge of the defendant association.
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On report. This was an action of assumpsit to recover the sum of $2000, by the plaintiff who is the widow of Harry J. Jeane, and the beneficiary named in his application for membership and insurance in Lakeside Lodge No. 43, located at Jefferson, Knox county, a subordinate lodge of the defendant association. The application is dated December 25, 1890, on which day, he was initiated a member of the lodge, and the applicant died October 27, 1891. The defendant is a corporation under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is organized, "for the purpose-of uniting in social and…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
The plaintiff must recover, if at' all, upon the ground that her husband died while a member of defendant corporation in good standing. Before his death, he had been expelled from membership. It is said that the proceedings leading to his expulsion were irregular, and did not conform to the rules of the order. Suppose they were; the laws of the order give an- appeal to a supreme tribunal constituted for the very purpose of correcting such errors, and they provide that each member failing to take such appeal "shall be deemed to have thereby agreed to abide by such decision or enforcement of…
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