Supreme Lodge Order of Mutual Protection v. Dewey
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Muskegon; Russell, J. Bill of interpleader by the Supreme Lodge, Order of Mutual Protection, against Theodore B. Dewey and Joseph W. Ducheney to determine title to the proceeds of a benefit certificate. From a decree for defendant Ducheney, Melvin J. Nevins, administrator of the estate of defendant Dewey, deceased, appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
Complainant, a fraternal benefit society, organized under the laws of Illinois, filed its bill of inter-pleader against the defendants to determine the proper party to receive the amount, conceded to be due, of a benefit certificate issued to Myrtle M. Ducheney, who, at the time of her death, was the wife of defendant Ducheney.
The defendant Dewey was stepfather to Mrs. Ducheney, having married her mother in November, 1894. At the time of her marriage, Mrs. Dewey owned a home on Apple street in the city of Muskegon, where she, her husband, and her daughter Myrtle lived together as a family…
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