Marcoux v. Society of Beneficence St. John Baptist
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was an action of assumpsit against the defendant, a society incorporated for the mutual assistance of its members while living, and the benefit of the members’ widows and heirs after their decease.
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On Report. This was an action of assumpsit against the defendant, a society incorporated for the mutual assistance of its members while living, and the benefit of the members’ widows and heirs after their decease. (Declaration.) In a plea of the case, for that Michel Marcoux of Clinton, in the county of Kennebec, on the thirteenth day of Api’il, A. D. 1887, at said Fairfield, became a member of the defendant society, and the defendant in consideration that said Michel should pay twenty-five cents per month at the meeting of each month and should pay one dollar during the thirty days following…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The plaintiff, as widow of Michel Marcoux, seeks to recover from the defendant certain benefits which she claims are due to her by virtue of the “ Constitution ” and “ Regulations ” of the defendant society, of which her husband is alleged to have been a member in his lifetime. The defendant is a religious, social and beneficial society. It issues no benefit certificates or contracts to its members. It is conceded that its obligations to its members and their beneficiaries are to be found in its by-laws, otherwise called its “Constitution” and “Regulations.” In these, we find the following…
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