Supreme Council v. Carley

Van Fleet, V. C.

The contest in this case is between two females, each of whom ■.claims to have been the wife of one Harvey Carley during his *643life, and since his death to be his widow. Carley died January 29th, 1893. Several years prior to his death, Carley became a member of a corporation known as the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum and a contributor to its widows’ and orphans’ benefit fund. As such contributor, he procured the corporation, in September, 1882, to issue a certificate by which it promised to pay his wife Sarah, on his death, out of its widows’ and orphans’ fund, a sum not…