Attorney General v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor

Dreyfus’s claim (claim 144) is another of the seventeen appeals from the decree of October 29,1909. See Attorney General v. American Legion of Honor (Hall’s Claim), ante, 158.

In this case the member died on June 9,1903, after having paid “ without protest (except as hereinafter noted) ” assessments of the reduced amount for two years and eight months (forty-eight in all). The collector of the Arkansas council states in his affidavit that the member “ protested to me vigorously against the attempted reduction of his policy and sought to be permitted to continue to pay assessments as on a…