Covenant Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Baldwin

Opinion op the Court,

Wall, J.

This was an action of assumpsit brought in the Circuit Court of Edgar County, upon a certificate of membership issued by defendant below, appellant here, to John H. Baldwin, providing for the payment upon his death of a sum not exceeding $2,500, as a benefit to his wife and children. The appellant filed the following plea in abatement.

“ And the defendant, the Covenant Mutual Benefit Association of Illinois, by John Malick, its attorney in fact, comes and appears herein for the purpose of filing a plea to the writ of summons issued in the above entitled cause,…