Sabin v. Grand Lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen

Macomber, J

When this action was before the court on the former appeal, the opinion by the learned justice to whom the case was assigned held substantially, with much elaboration, that the plaintiff could not recover, inasmuch as it was competent for her husband to change the beneficiary named in the certificate which was issued by the defendant corporation to him. 6 H. Y. St. Hep. 151. But the majority of the court did not concur in, though they did not dissent from, that conclusion, but contented themselves with agreeing to an order for a new trial, upon the ground of erroneous admission of…