Malone v. Grand Lodge

1. Insurance: failure to apply excess assessment. I. Patrick J. Malone became a member of the defendant order on May 3, 1910, and died April 25, 1915. Plaintiff is the administratrix of his estate, and brings this suit to recover upon his certificate of membership. The beneficiary named in the certificate died before the member. At the time of becoming a member, he paid an initiation fee of $3.00, and an amount equal to one full monthly assessment. The defense pleaded is the forfeiture of his membership by the nonpayment of monthly assessments for the months of February, March, and April,…