Jennings v. Supreme Council
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Supreme Council of the Loyal Additional Benefit Association, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of June, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th. day of June, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The action is brought to recover the sum of $2,000 upon a beneficiary certificate issued by the defendant on the Ilth day of November, 1895, to Charles Hopkins Jennings who died on the 18th day - of February, 1898, after having been admitted to membership in its Star Council No. 44 at Danbury, Conn.! The plaintiff is the widow of the decedent and in the application for membership he designated her as his beneficiary and, according to the terms of the' beneficiary certificate, the beneficiary fund is payable to her. The defendant contested the claim on account of alleged breaches…
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