Supreme Council A. L. H. v. Lippincott
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
It was decided by this court in Supreme Council American Legion of Honor v. Black, 123 Fed. 650, 59 C. C. A. 414, that by reason of the adoption by the corporation of the by-law reducing the insurance certificate from $5,000 to $2,000 and putting the by-law into effect by making assessments on the reduced basis and notifying the certificate holders, a certificate holder who had performed his part of the contract, and had not consented to the reduction, might elect to treat the contract as rescinded, and sue immediately to recover back all the assessments he had paid…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Roehm v. HorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Supreme Council A. L. H. v. BlackCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1903
- Supreme Council A. L. H. v. DaixCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1904
3Cited by13 opinions
- Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. GrayCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1908
- Voss v. Northwestern National Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
- National Life Co. v. WolvertonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1942
- Clymer v. Supreme CouncilU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1905
- Harless v. Western & Southern Life InsuranceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1937
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