Boeck v. Modern Woodmen of America

This action was brought at law to recover from the defendant upon a beneficiary certificate issued to Paul E. Boeck in December, 1898. Boeck died November 28, 1909. The defenses to the action were that, in his application for membership, Boeck, in anwser to certain interrogatories, stated that he had never been intoxicated, and also that he only drank one glass of beer a week, whereas said Boeck had been intoxicated prior to making said application, and that he then consumed a greater quantity of liquor than a glass of beer per week, and that the statements made by him were warranties which…