Pain v. Société St. Jean Baptiste
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover the amount of benefits alleged to be due to the plaintiff as a member of the defendant society. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The defendant society is a beneficiary organization, chartered in 1884, under Pub. Sts. c. 115, and ever since its incorporation the plaintiff has been a member in good standing. In June, 1890, the plaintiff by reason of sickness became unable to work, and has so continued to the present time, and *320during that time he has received benefits at the rate of five dollars per week for thirteen weeks of each year, down to July 7, 1896; and since the latter date he has received benefits at the rate of only one dollar per week- for thirteen weeks of each year. This suit is brought to recover the…
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