Fortune v. Sovereign Camp W. O. W.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

We gather from the record before us that the defendant association, about December, 1920, issued to the plaintiff, one of its members, a combined beneficiary certificate in the maximum sum of $1,000.00; the insured being given the option under certain conditions, of surrendering his policy for cancellation and receiving in settlement thereof, as permanent total disability benefits, the sum of $500.00.

The plaintiff alleges that in February, 1930, while under the age of sixty, he became totally and permanently disabled; and that in…