Epstein v. Mutual Aid & Benevolent Life Insurance Ass'n

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment rejecting her demand against the defendants for five thousand dollars on a policy of insurance taken out on the life of her husband, Lewis Epstein, on the second of July, 1872, the assured having died on the twentieth of January, 1873. The defense is, the policy was void, because the assured failed to comply with a condition precedent. The insurance was for a sum equal to one dollar for each enrolled member to the number of five thousand appearing on the books of the association in class “A” at the date of the death of the assured. By a clause of the policy…