Chartrand v. Brace
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court of Boulder County. It appears from the record in this case that in September, 1886, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a secret society organized and established for the purpose, among other things, of insuring the lives of its members, issued to one Sterling D. Bouse, a member of the order, a certificate of insurance in the following words and figures, omitting the formal parts, to wit: “ This certificate, issued by the authority of the Supreme…
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Appeal from District Court of Boulder County. It appears from the record in this case that in September, 1886, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a secret society organized and established for the purpose, among other things, of insuring the lives of its members, issued to one Sterling D. Bouse, a member of the order, a certificate of insurance in the following words and figures, omitting the formal parts, to wit: “ This certificate, issued by the authority of the Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, witnesseth, that Brother Sterling D. Bouse, a master-workman degree member…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hayt
The amended answer admits, by failing to deny, the facts as stated in the complaint, and for the purposes of this appeal the new matter set up in this answer must also be taken as true. Upon these facts the position of appellee is that upon the death of the insured the right to the fund vested absolutely in the wife, Ella A. Bouse, and that upon her death the right to the uncollected fund passed as part of her estate to her administrator, to be by him disposed of as other assets of the estate. The contention of appellant is that, as the fund had not been paid over or collected at the time of…
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- State ex rel. Attorney General v. Farmers & Mechanics Mutual Benevolent Ass'nNebraska Supreme Court · 1885
- Inhabt's of New Portland v. Inabt's of RumfordSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1836
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