Beil v. Supreme Lodge
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of December, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order bearing date the 19th day of December, 1901, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
In November, 1882, the defendant issued to one Carl Beil a certificate by which it agreed to pay to his widow, the plaintiff in this action, the sum of $2,000 out of a fund called the widows and orphans’ benefit fund, upon satisfactory evidence of his death, provided that he at that time had not bee-n suspended according to *611the laws, rules and regulations of the defendant, and that he was then in good standing. The certificate contained the further provision that in case the said Beil committed suicide while sane or insane, except in delirium resulting from illness, or while he…
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