Burnett v. Modern Woodmen of America

This cause was tried in the court below upon an agreed statement of facts, and it appears therefrom that the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal beneficiary society, organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, issued a benefit certificate to Jud Watson in 1921, payable, upon the death of the insured, to his uncle, R. P. Burnett.

The monthly assessments were regularly paid until April, 1930, in March, 1922, Watson, the insured, left the State and went to Oklahoma, where he was last heard from directly in 1923. The subordinate lodge at Beebe, of which AVatson was a member, knew of his…