Apitz v. Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Cirduit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Arthur H. Frost, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
Defendant in error is a fraternal benefit association. December 29, 1894, it issued a benefit certificate to August F. Apitz in which plaintiff in error was named as beneficiary. Apitz disappeared from his home November 7, 1905, and has not since been heard from. Plaintiff in error, as beneficiary, brought an action in assumpsit in the circuit court of Winnebago county on the certificate September 23, 1913. By one count of the declaration Apitz’s death was alleged to have occurred on the day of his disappearance; by another that his death occurred within one year from the time of his…
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