Timmerhoff v. Supreme Tent of Knights
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908. Statement by the Court. Plaintiff’s deceased husband was, in his lifetime, a member of the defendant fraternal benefit association.
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Assumpsit. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1908. Statement by the Court. Plaintiff’s deceased husband was, in his lifetime, a member of the defendant fraternal benefit association. A benefit certificate was issued to him when he became such member, on November 20, 1900, whereby the association agreed, upon his ■death, to pay to plaintiff one assessment to be levied on the defendant’s membership, not to exceed in amount $2,000. The husband, Kasper Timmerhoff, ■died on November 8,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Chytraus
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Circuit Court having disposed of the ease by sustaining the demurrers to the plaintiff’s replications to the second plea, nothing is before us except the question of the sufficiency in law of the matters presented by those replications.
The second plea of the defendant, to which these replications are addressed, is, in substance, that plaintiff is not entitled to recover anything because when Kasper Timmerhoff became a member of defendant association, November 19,1900, he agreed that the laws of defendant should constitute…
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