National Grand Lodge, Loyal Friends of America Benev. Ass'n v. Wilson

This appeal is prosecuted by the National Grand Lodge, Loyal Friends of America, a corporation, appellant herein, from a judgment for the sum of $500 rendered against it in the county court of Navarro county in favor of Willie Wilson, appellee herein, as the beneficiary named in a membership certificate issued by appellant to Robert Wilson, now deceased. Appellant was incorporated as a voluntary benevolent association without capital stock under the provisions of article 1121 of the Revised Statutes of 1911. Its charter declares that its object is to combine negro males' and females of sound…