Parsons v. Grand Lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blackhawh District Court. — LIon. A. S. Blair, J udge. Action at law on a certificate of membership in the defendant company. Defendant admitted the issuance of the certificate, and that plaintiff is the beneficiary named therein, but denied all other allegations of the petition.
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Appeal from Blackhawh District Court. — LIon. A. S. Blair, J udge. Action at law on a certificate of membership in the defendant company. Defendant admitted the issuance of the certificate, and that plaintiff is the beneficiary named therein, but denied all other allegations of the petition. It further pleaded that plaintiff was not the legal wife of the assured, and that the insured falsely and fraundulently represented that she was his wife, whereas in truth he had another wife living, from whom he had not been divorced. Plaintiff replied that she was married to the assured in April of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, J.- — I.
*81 *7On the fifteenth day of October, 1892, the defendant, a mutual benefit association, issued a certificate of membership to Prank IT. Parsons, in which Ada II. Parsons, who then bore the relationship to him of wife, was named as beneficiary. Thereafter, and on the thirteenth day of December, 1893, the assured directed and requested the defendant to change the beneficiary, and in this direction *8said: “And now authorize and direct such payment to be made to Mrs. Esther H. Parsons, bearing relation to myself of wife.” Thereupon, and on the twenty-eighth day of the last-mentioned…
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