Knights of the Modern MacCab. v. Mayfield
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Hill County; C. M. Smithdeal, Judge. Actiou by Mrs. Hattie Lloyd Mayfield against the Knights of the Modern Maccabees. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRainey, C. J.
Appellee sued the appellant to recover $1,000 on a benefit certificate issued by appellant to W. S. Mayfield, deceased, also to recover $500 as attorney’s fees, and $95 due on account of a disability claim. Appellant answered by general and special demurrers and specially that appel-lee ought not to recover because the certificate had been forfeited for failure to pay dues, and that she had failed to exhaust the remedies of the order before resorting to the court.
The ease was tried before the court without a jury and judgment rendered for $1,-000 and legal interest from October 7, 1908, from…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- McMahon v. Supreme Tent Knights of the Maccabees of the WorldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
- Wuerfler v. Trustees of the Grand Grove of Wisconsin of the Order of DruidsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
- Brown v. Supreme CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Kane v. Supreme Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees of the WorldMissouri Court of Appeals · 1905
- Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen v. GreaserAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Missouri State Life Ins. Co. v. Le FevreCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1928
- Parrott v. Brotherhood of Railroad TrainmenCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1935