Simmons v. Sovereign Camp

Mb,. Justice Williams

delivered' the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit on a beneficiary certificate brought by the widow of Horace Gr. Simmons, as beneficiary. The association defends on the ground that the deceased joined the order in the State of Arkansas at a time when he was engaged in farming, and paid throughout after1 life the premium sums assessed against farmer members, and that on his removal to this State he had changed his occupation to that of locomotive fireman, without giving notice within thirty days required by the laws of the order, and without thereafter paying the…