Attorney General v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor

Law’s claim (claim 156) is another of the seventeen appeals from the decree of October 29,1909. See Attorney General v. American Legion of Honor (Hall’s Claim), ante, 158.

In this case the member died on June 9,1902, and on September 22,1902, the beneficiaries were paid $2,000 and surrendered the certificate for cancellation.

The local collector made an affidavit that after the adoption of by-law 55 the member paid him “ an assessment, or perhaps more than one,” on the old basis, and that he sent it or them to the defendant at Boston. That it or they were refused, but the member “ continued to…