Ellis v. Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World

Sometime during the year 1908 Hiram Lee Ellis became a member of the Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World in its local camp in Corpus Christi, Texas. About the same time there was issued to him by the Woodmen of the World a policy or certificate of insurance on his life in the sum of $3,000.00, in which Charlotte D. Ellis, his mother, plaintiff in error, was named as beneficiary.

Sometime during the year 1924 Hiram Lee Ellis made application in writing to the Woodmen of the World, through its duly qualified officers, for a change of beneficiary in the said insurance certificate, the…