Grose v. District Grand Lodge of the United Order of Odd Fellows of Louisiana

MOUTON, Judge.

The above entitled and numbered cases were consolidated for trial in the lower court, in which the following opinion and decrees were rendered:

“These three consolidated suits are based upon three endowment policies issued by the bureau of endowment of the defendant organization, respectively to Eligah Grose, Oleve Presley, and James Bellings, who named as their beneficiaries their respective wives, who survived them, and are the plaintiffs herein.

“The defense is that at the death of the three insureds, they were not in good standing in the defendant organization, for the reason…