Boward v. Bankers Union of the World
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. — Hon. John P. Butler, • Judge. (1) Every member of a beneficiary order is presumed to linow tbe provisions of tbe by-laws of tbe order. Harvey v. Grand Lodge, 50 Mo. App. 472. (2) Officials and members of subordinate lodges have no right to waive any of tbe requirements of tbe by-laws of tbe order in so far as tbey affect tbe rights of tbe parent corporation.
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Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. — Hon. John P. Butler, • Judge. (1) Every member of a beneficiary order is presumed to linow tbe provisions of tbe by-laws of tbe order. Harvey v. Grand Lodge, 50 Mo. App. 472. (2) Officials and members of subordinate lodges have no right to waive any of tbe requirements of tbe by-laws of tbe order in so far as tbey affect tbe rights of tbe parent corporation. In this case tbe secretary of tbe local lodge could not, by tbe acceptance of tbe money offered by Boward, waive tbe requirements of tbe by-laws of tbe appellant that in order to reinstate Boward to…
1Opinion of the CourtBroaddus, J.
The defendant, a mutual benefit organization, on the twentieth day of June, 1900, issued to Charles R. Boward, plaintiff’s husband, two certificates of insurance, for the benefit of the plaintiff, one for the sum of $2,000, and the other for the sum of. $250, to be paid to her within sixty days after satisfactory proof of the death of said insured. Said Charles R. Boward died on the seventeenth day of March, 1901, and satisfactory proof of his death was duly filed with the defendant in accordance with the terms of the certificate, but the defendant refused to pay plaintiff the insurance money…
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