Wandell v. Mystic Toilers
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court.— IIon. Franklin 0. Platt, Judge. Action to recover on a benefit certificate issued to Mrs. Geo. Emma Wandell, now deceased; benefit payable to plaintiff, her husband. The association made ho defense, but intervener, the father of Mrs. Wandell, asserted the right to the benefit by reason of an attempted change of beneficiary in his favor. Trial in equity. Judgment for intervener. Plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
A benefit certificate for $1,000 was issued in 1900 to Mrs. Wandell as a member in the defendant-association, benefit payable to plaintiff, her husband. On June 6, 1903, Mrs. Wandell, who was then sick at the home of her father, the intervener, living in the country about five miles from the town of Strawberry Point, signed the following indorsement on the back of this certificate:
I, Mrs. Geo. Emma Wandell, to whom the within certificate was issued, do hereby surrender the same, and request that a new one be issued in the amount of one thousand dollars, and that the payment of the benefit…
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