Legal Opinion
Courtemanche v. Supreme Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided March 8, 1904No. Docket No. 70PublishedCited by 7 opinions
Error to Saginaw; Beach, J. Assumpsit by Emma Courtemanche against the Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters upon a benefit certificate. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff is the widow of one Oliver Courtemanche, and beneficiary in a certificate of membership in the defendant society, a mutual benefit association. This policy contained the following limitations upon, or exceptions to, liability, viz.:
“ (1) Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3 of this section, the contracts for benefits heretofore or hereafter undertaken by the supreme court do not include assurance against self-destruction or suicide, whether the member be sane or insane.
“ (2) Any brother who commits suicide shall ipso facto avoid all his benefit certificates, and ipso facto…
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