Conway v. Supreme Council Catholic Knights of America

In 1889 the defendant, the Supreme Council of the Catholic Knights of America, a beneficial order incorporated under the laws of Kentucky, issued its benefit certificate to one John M. Conway, by which, upon the death of John M. Conway at a time when he was in good standing in the order, there should be paid to his nephew, Thomas J. Conway, the sum of two thousand dollars. The defendants Koonan, Shay, and Menihan became sureties for John M. Conway in the sum of sixteen hundred dollars, and to protect and secure them an assignment and transfer was made to them of the policy. The assignment…