Whitney v. National Masonic Accident Ass'n
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant the National Masonic Accident Association of Des Moines, Iowa, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made September 22, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, was insured June 2, 1890, by defendant.
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Appeal by defendant the National Masonic Accident Association of Des Moines, Iowa, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry G. Hicks, J., made September 22, 1893, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, Edwin C. Whitney, was insured June 2, 1890, by defendant. He was fifty six years old and was treasurer of the Mississippi & Rum River Boom Company and engaged in official duties in its offices in Lumber Exchange Building, Minneapolis, and in travelling for it. By the policy it agreed to pay him $25 per week for a period not exceeding fifty two consecutive weeks…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The defendant is a mutual benefit association organized under the laws of the state of Iowa for the purpose of indemnifying its members by payments in money on account of accidents occurring to them, the necessary money being raised solely *478by assessments upon the members. This plaintiff became a member in June, 1890, and brought this action to recover the stipulated weekly indemnity for seventeen weeks and four days, because of an accident which befell him in January, 1891. The case has been here before. 52 Minn. 378, (54 N. W. 184.)
The association, at the second trial, resisted payment…
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