Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Sunday

CODY, Justice.

This is a suit on a fraternal benefit certificate for $1,000, issued by appellant, a self-governing, nonprofit making, mutual benefit fraternal association, to the insured L. C. Sunday, who died December 26,. 1933. Appellee is insured’s beneficiary and widow. The case was tried without a jury, and neither findings of fact nor conclusions of law have been filed.

The defense urged by appellant here, as in the trial court, is that at the time of his death Sunday had been suspended and his certificate forfeited by operation of its ipso facto forfeiture provisions. These ipso facto…