Woodmen of the World v. Gilliland
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Oklahoma County; before B. F. Bwrwell, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OE FACTS. This is an action commenced in the district court in and for Oklahoma county, Oklahoma territory, September 21, 1899, by Fannie Gilliland, plaintiff, against the Woodmen of the World, defendant.
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Error from the District Court of Oklahoma County; before B. F. Bwrwell, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OE FACTS. This is an action commenced in the district court in and for Oklahoma county, Oklahoma territory, September 21, 1899, by Fannie Gilliland, plaintiff, against the Woodmen of the World, defendant. The petition alleges that the defendant is a corporation, organized and legally chartered, in the state of Nebraska, being an order composed of a .sovereign, camp, beneficiary head camps, and certain subordinate. camps, having for its- object, among other things, to combine white male persons of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Irwin, J.:
While there are numerous assignments of error in this case, the counsel for plaintiff in error have in their brief condensed them, and narrowed the argument to but two central, objective points, and we will follow this plan in our discussion of the case. Counsel say “the first question is, it being an admitted fact in the case that Gilli-land was suspended on the first day of March, 1899, for non-payment of the February assessment, and being suspended at the time of his death, can plaintiff recover ?” Let us briefly consider the .question, and ascertain from…
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