Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n v. Bolles

Mr. Presiding Justice Baume

delivered the opinion of .the court.

Hiram O. Bolles died August 8, 1901, and. this suit in assumpsit was instituted by appellees against appellant, to recover the amount of a benefit certificate for a sum not exceeding $5,000, upon the life of said Bolles, issued by the Covenant Mutual Benefit Association, payable to appellees as beneficiaries. A jury being waived, the cause was tried by the court, resulting in a finding and judgment against appellant for $2,216.25.

The stipulation in the case, together with oral and documentary evidence introduced and considered…