Dick v. Supreme Body of the International Congress

The plaintiff’s husband was a member of the order of the Supreme Body of the International Congress, a mutual benefit association, having been admitted upon an application containing the following agreement:

“This application and the laws of the supreme body now in force or that may hereafter be adopted, are made a part of the contract between myself and the supreme body, and I for myself and my beneficiary or beneficiaries, agree to conform to and be governed thereby.”

The certificate issued upon said application was for $1,000, payable to himself and wife as beneficiaries, and was expressly…