Homesteaders' Life Ass'n v. Booth

This is an action by the defendant in error, E. C. Booth, against the plaintiff in error, the Homesteaders’ Life Association, a fraternal benefit society, to recover a death benefit of $3,000 provided for under the terms of a benefit certificate alleged to have been issued by the plaintiff in error upon the life of Lemma Booth, the wife of defendant in error, in which certificate the defendant in error was named as beneficiary.

On the trial of the case the undisputed evidence showed that on or about January 6, 1924, Mrs. Booth executed and delivered to N. C. Blair, then a soliciting agent of…