Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor v. Benes

In an action of assumpsit the defendant’s demurrer to plaintiffs third replication to defendant’s plea was overruled. Plaintiff then withdrew her other replications, the defendant stood by its demurrer and final judgment was entered for plaintiff for $1,046.76 and defendant appealed.

The. first count of the declaration averred that defendant was a corporation organized under the laws of Indiana and doing business in Illinois as a fraternal benefit society, for the purpose of furnishing pecuniary benefits to beneficiaries of deceased, and as such corporation November 25, 1904, made and…