Legal Opinion

Supreme Lodge Heights of Honor v. Wickser

Texas Supreme Court

Decided December 11, 1888No. 5986PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from Lamar. Tried below before Hon. A. M. Taylor, Special District Judge appointed by the Governor in place of Hon. D. H. Scott, disqualified.

1Opinion of the Court

Collard, Judge.

This suit was brought by the appellee, Fannie Wickser, against appellant, the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor, for $2000 and interest on a benefit certificate of insurance on the life of her husband Fred Wickser, who died about May 17, 1882.

Fred Wickser was a member of Blossom Prairie Lodge, Ho. 1031, and a benefit certificate for $2000 had been issued to him for the benefit of plaintiff and his two children, in conformity with the laws of the order. After his death the children regularly transferred their rights under the certificate to the plaintiff. From the time of…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. Rueb v. RehderNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Warwick v. Supreme Conclave Knights of DamonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  3. Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor v. KeenerCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1894
  4. Westenfelder v. GreenOregon Supreme Court · 1893

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