Tice v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred From St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) It is evident under the authority of the Toomey Case that defendant was doing an old-line insurance business. Defendant admitted at the trial of this cause that its laws affecting the Endowment Eank- have not been changed since then, and that they are doing business on the same plan now that they were then.
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Transferred From St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) It is evident under the authority of the Toomey Case that defendant was doing an old-line insurance business. Defendant admitted at the trial of this cause that its laws affecting the Endowment Eank- have not been changed since then, and that they are doing business on the same plan now that they were then. Therefore, unless the laws of our State have been so altered as to make Fraternal Beneficial Associations out of old-line companies, defendant must remain in the class assigned it by that decision. Toomey v. Supreme Lodge, 147 Mo. 130. (2)…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
This case reaches this court from the St. Lonis Court of Appeals, for the reason that Bland, P. J., filed a dissenting opinion in which he asks that the cause be certified to this court, as, in his judgment, the majority opinion is in conflict with the case of Toomey v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias, 147 Mo. 129, decided by this court.
The action is one upon a certificate of insurance ■issued by defendant to one of its members, John P. Tice, on July 25, 1898, and accepted by said Tice, July 27, 1898. In the lower court judgment was for defendant and plaintiff appealed. Said certificate was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Westerman v. Supreme Lodge Knights of PythiasSupreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- Toomey v. Supreme Lodge Knights of PythiasSupreme Court of Missouri · 1898
- Tice v. Supreme Lodge Knights of PythiasMissouri Court of Appeals · 1904
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