Kult v. Nelson
New York Supreme Court
Action between claimants to determine right to a fund paid into court by a benefit society. '
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, J.
The plaintiff’s mother, Wilhelmina Kult, became a member of the fraternal society, Ladies of the Maccabees, and on *21Juñe 5, 1894, received an endowment certificate entitling her son, this plaintiff, to $1,000 upon her death. The laws of the society provide that such certificate shall not be made payable to any other person than the husband, child, dependent, mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew of the member, and that no certificate can be transferred to any person other than those enumerated. . In case a. member desires a change of beneficiary a new cer- . tificate…
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