Bell v. Newkirk

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to reform a certificate of fra-, ternal insurance and to recover the amount specified therein.

*112It appears that on July 20, 1919, a fraternal insurance society named the Court of Honor issued a certificate of insurance for $1,000 to one Finis Bell) of Kansas City, in which' his wife, Clemma Bell, was named as beneficiary.

Bell and wife were working-class folk; he was a railway and packing-house employee; she was a waitress and kept a rooming house. Until the last couple of months of Bell’s life his wife paid the monthly…