Knights Templars & Masonic Mut. Aid Ass'n v. Greene
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio
This suit was begun by the ICnights Templars & Masonic Mutual Aid Association by filing its petition in tbe. nature of an interpleader in the superior court of Cincinnati against Sarah L. Greene, the widow of John G. Greene, Mary Greene, the mother of John G. Greene, and John G. Greene’s brothers and sisters. The defendants removed the case to this court, where the pleadings were not reframed to conform to the equity practice of this court as they should have been.
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This suit was begun by the ICnights Templars & Masonic Mutual Aid Association by filing its petition in tbe. nature of an interpleader in the superior court of Cincinnati against Sarah L. Greene, the widow of John G. Greene, Mary Greene, the mother of John G. Greene, and John G. Greene’s brothers and sisters. The defendants removed the case to this court, where the pleadings were not reframed to conform to the equity practice of this court as they should have been. The petition was filed to determine who among the defendants should be paid the amount of an insurance policy issued by the…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). It is contended on behalf of the widow of John G. Greene, the insured, that the word “heirs” should be construed according to the laws of Ohio. If so, it is conceded that, as the insured left no children, she would take-the entire fund, whether the word “heirs” is to be construed strictly as meaning those who at his death would inherit real estate from the insured, or is to be taken as meaning those to whom personal property of the insured would be distributed if he died intestate. The administrator of Mary Greene, the mother of the insured (she having died since…
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- Parsons v. . LymanNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
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- Harrison v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1835
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