Ragsdale v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The suit herein was instituted May 7, 1933, on -a Benefit Certificate or policy of insurance dated April 1, 1900, issued to plaintiff, a Member of Magic City Lodge No. 57 of Moberly, Missouri, of which city and State he was, at all times, a resident and citizen. The second amended petition, on which the case was tried, charged that defendant is and was at all times “a voluntary unincorporated association” . . . “doing business as an insurance company in the State of Missouri,” and issued the policy whereby it promised to pay plaintiff the sum of eighteen hundred seventy-five dollars, in the…