Morgan v. Independent Order of Sons & Daughters of Jacob of America
Mississippi Supreme Court
. From the chancery court of first district, Iiinds county. Hon. G. Garland Lyell, Chancellor. Mrs. Morgan and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; the Independent Order of Sons and Daughters of Jacob of America, the appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of the defendant, complainants appealed to the supreme court.
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. From the chancery court of first district, Iiinds county. Hon. G. Garland Lyell, Chancellor. Mrs. Morgan and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below; the Independent Order of Sons and Daughters of Jacob of America, the appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of the defendant, complainants appealed to the supreme court. The complainants, as beneficiaries in a policy of insurance or death benefit certificate issued by the defendant order to one Samuel Morgan, sued to recover thereon. The bill of complaint alleged the death of the insured while in good standing…
1Opinion of the CourtMates, J.
On the 5th day of October, 1894, Samuel Morgan became a member of the Independent Order of the Sons and Daughters of Jacob of America. This organization is a mutual benefit association. Samuel Morgan was about fifty-eight years old at the time he joined, and was illiterate, unable to read or write, or sign his name. The beneficiaries named in the insurance certificate issued by the order of the Sons and Daughters of Jacob of America at the time he joined the order are the appellants in this case, Lucy Morgan and others. Samuel Morgan was continually a member of this order from the time he…
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