Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor v. Johnson

The plaintiff, Nannie E. Johnson, instituted this action against the Supreme Lodge Knights and Ladies of Honor, a fráternal society organized as a corporation under the laws of the States of Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana, to recover the amount of a relief fund certificate or policy therein on the life of her son, Charles Johnson, who is alleged to have been a member of said society at the time of his death. The defendant denied that said Charles Johnson was a member of said order, and ujpon this issue the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. It appears from the evidence that in…