Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias of the World v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action by Mattie Wilson, widow of William. R. Wilson, against the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias of the World, to recover upon a certificate of insurance upon the life of said William E. Wilson.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. This was an action by Mattie Wilson, widow of William. R. Wilson, against the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias of the World, to recover upon a certificate of insurance upon the life of said William E. Wilson. The action was brought in a court of the state of Alabama, and vas removed by the defendant into the United States circuit court, where the plaintiff recovered a judgment. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
The defendant in error, who was the plaintiff in the court below, sued the plaintiff in error in the state court on a certificate of membership in the Endowment Rank of the order of Knights of Pythias; said certificate of membership having been issued to William R. Wilson, the husband of the defendant in error, she being named therein as beneficiary. The cause was removed upon the petition of the plaintiff in error to the United States circuit court. Upon the trial a judgment was rendered for the plaintiff in the court below, and a writ of error sued out to this court…
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