Arcanum v. Coverdale
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, on a certificate in a beneficiary association. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding.
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Assumpsit, on a certificate in a beneficiary association. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 19C0. Statement.—The appellant corporation was organized November 5, 1877, under the laws of Massachusetts, “for the purposes of fraternal union, aid to its members and their dependents, the education—social, moral and intellectual—of its members, assisting widows and orphans of deceased members, and providing for a widows and orphans’ benefit fund, and so forth.” At the time of the organization of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Presiding Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the court.
The by-law referred to in the preceding statement, namely, “Applications shall not be received from barkeepers, or from persons who, at any time, sell or serve intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises,” was at the time of Wasserman’s application for membership in the appellant order, and ever since said time has been, a general law of the order binding on all subordinate lodges and members of the order. The effect of this by-law is, clearly, to render ineligible and exclude from membership the classes of persons mentioned,…
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