Continental Bank & Trust Co. v. Sovereign Camp, W. O. W.

The plaintiff company is the tutor of the three minos: children of E. L. Harper, Jr., who died on April 22, 1923. Harper was married twice; his surviving children being the issue of his first marriage. At the time of his death he was a member of the Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World, holding a mutual benefit certificate for $3,000 in that society. Harper’s first wife died in the year 1915, and his second wife survived him. The latter made proof of death, and, as the beneficiary, claimed the avails of the certificate issued by the defendant. Payment was accordingly made to her, and this…