Skillings v. Massachusetts Benefit Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover $7,000 upon two certificates of membership issued by the defendant on the life of Edward A. Clapp. The declaration alleged that the certificates were issued on February 18, 1885, and March 9, 1885, respectively, and were payable to the plaintiff; and that Clapp died on February 8,1886. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence the certificates, the fact of the death of Clapp, and proofs of death, in conformity…
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Contract to recover $7,000 upon two certificates of membership issued by the defendant on the life of Edward A. Clapp. The declaration alleged that the certificates were issued on February 18, 1885, and March 9, 1885, respectively, and were payable to the plaintiff; and that Clapp died on February 8,1886. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bacon, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence the certificates, the fact of the death of Clapp, and proofs of death, in conformity with the contract. The defendant put in evidence the application of Clapp to become a member of the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The rexceptions in this case are meagre, but it appears that the defendant was an association doing business under the provisions of the Pub. Sts. c. 115, and that it issued two certificates of membership on the life of Edward A. Clapp for sums of money to be paid on his death to the plaintiff, who was described in the application as “ dependent.” The plaintiff was not a relative of Clapp, and his only relation to him was that of a creditor. The declaration alleged that the certificates were issued on February 18, 1885, and March 9, 1885, respectively, and that Clapp died on February 3, 1886.…
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