Tucker v. Knights of Pythias

The administrator of a deceased member of the “Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of the State of Georgia,” • a mutual benefit society, sued, the latter on a policy issued by it to the member on December 18, 1904, which policy provided that the order, “under the following express conditions, stipulations, and agreements now existing or that may hereafter be enacted by the grand lodge, will pay to the widow, legal heirs or representa-, tives, at the death of” the member, a specified amount, provided that the member ’shall have complied with all regulations and laws of the lodges, and the…