Clark v. Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the widow of Louis H. Clark, against a fraternal beneficiary association incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth and the children of said Louis H. Clark.
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Bill in equity, by the widow of Louis H. Clark, against a fraternal beneficiary association incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth and the children of said Louis H. Clark. The prayer was for an injunction restraining the society from paying out the benefit fund until it might be determined to whom it was payable, or that it should pay the same into court to await its further order ; that it might be decreed that the death benefit should be made payable to the "plaintiff, or that the society or said other defendants should repay to her out of the fund the amount of assessments she…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The plaintiff’s husband, according to the bill, had taken out a benefit certificate in a fraternal beneficiary society, in which, as both sides assumed at the argument, the children of the husband by a former marriage were named as beneficiaries. Her husband promised the plaintiff to transfer, this certificate to her. Subsequently, relying on the assurance that it had been transferred, she paid assessments on the certificate, from September 1, 1892, to January 30, 1899, to the amount of $330, and also at different times from June 5, 1892, to January 30,1899, paid to him or on his account…
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