Overhiser v. Overhiser

The sole question involved in this suit is the proper disposition of the fund arising from insurance in a mutual benefit association. In July, 1884, the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workman of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, issued to one of its members, George P. Overhiser, a beneficiary certificate, wherein it agreed that upon his compliance with the rules and laws of the order, it would upon his death pay to a person to be designated by him, the sum of $2,000. The beneficiary named in the certificate was the appellee, Lena Overhiser, who then bore to the member the…