Calhoun v. the MacCabees

In this proceeding, Katy Calhoun, as the designated beneficiary of her deceased brother, William H. Boyle, sought recovery from the Maccabees upon a life benefit certificate for $1,000 issued by that order to him during his lifetime. The court trying the cause without a jury denied her claim upon a finding that her brother had not complied with the laws of the society in the matter of paying the dues and assessments against him, and had been duly and legally suspended from membership therein for such nonpayment from about March 5, 1918, until his death some time in June of the same year.

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