Monahan v. Supreme Lodge of the Order of Columbian Knights
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover f1,500, and interest, accident indemnity, upon a certificate of membership issued by defendant, a fraternal, beneficial association. The case was tried before Brooks, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for the sum demanded. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
The defendant association is a fraternal and beneficial order; the objects being, according to its constitution, to establish a fund for the payment of benefits to its members in case of disability or death resulting from disease, accident, or old age. In 1899 the plaintiff became a member of this order, and there was issued to him its certificate of membership, whereby, for a sufficient consideration, it promiséd to pay to his son (naming him) a sum not ex*225ceeding $3,000, out of the beneficiary funds of the order, upon satisfactory proof of plaintiff’s death, and upon condition that he had…
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