De Fraga v. Portuguese Mutual Benefit Society

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PREAR, J.

This is an action for sick Benefits from November 9, 1893, to September 19, 1894, at the rate of $1.25 per day, amounting-*129to $3S14 and. interest thereon, which the plaintiff claims to be payable to him under the by-laws of the defendant corporation, of which he is a member.

The action was tried by the Circuit Oorirt, jury waived, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff. The defendant brings the case here on two alleged exceptions.

One relates to the admissibility of the records of a former case as evidence to show the status of the plaintiff as a member of the…