Spande v. Western Life Indemnity Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Clatsop: Jambs A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Me. Justice Burnett. This is an action by H. A. Larsen Spande against the Western Life Indemnity Company.
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From Clatsop: Jambs A. Eakin, Judge. Statement by Me. Justice Burnett. This is an action by H. A. Larsen Spande against the Western Life Indemnity Company. After alleging the corporate character of the defendant and its authority to conduct the business of life insurance in the State of Oregon, the complaint recites that on August 28, 1888, the Washington Co-Operative Life Insurance Association was organized and doing business within the State of Oregon as a life insurance association on a mutual benefit plan, and states “that on that date the said Washington Co-Operative Life Insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
1. The substance of the complaint is that the defendant, by an agreement made directly with the plaintiff, undertook to assume and discharge the obligation of the Order of Washington to him. By his own statement, he says *230that he accepted the certificate of membership issued by the order in lieu of the one previously issued to him by the Washington Co-Operative Life Insurance Association. Although, as pleaded, the first certificate may have provided for the payment direct to plaintiff of the sum of $2,000 at the end of the 20-year period, or to his beneficiary in case he died sooner, in the…
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