Coverdale v. Royal Arcanum
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun on September 8, 1896, by the appellants, Victoria Coverdale and William Wasserman, daughter and son, and only children, of one William Wasserman, deceased, against the appellee, the Royal Arcanum.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun on September 8, 1896, by the appellants, Victoria Coverdale and William Wasserman, daughter and son, and only children, of one William Wasserman, deceased, against the appellee, the Royal Arcanum. The suit is upon a benefit certificate for the payment of $3000.00, issued on June 8, 1894, by the appellee to said William Wasserman, naming his two children, the appellants herein, as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—In this case, the Appellate Court has reversed the judgment of the circuit court, which was in favor of the plaintiffs below, without remanding the cause, and has recited no facts in its final judgment of reversal. It must be presumed, therefore, that the Appellate Court found the facts the same as did the trial court, and that the cause was 'reversed for some error of law, which, in the opinion of the Appellate Court, was committed by the trial court.
The constitution and by-laws of the appellee society were introduced in evidence; and one of the by-laws provided that applications…
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