Byram v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hamilton District Gourt. — HoN. D. R. HiND-man, Judge. ActioN on a beneficiary certificate issued by the defendant association. Judgment for defendant, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
GeangeR, J.-
*4331 *432— I. The plaintiff was tbe father, and is tbe beneficiary named in the certificate in suit issued by the defendant association to Elbert W. Byram on the tenth day of August, 1894. It secures to the beneficiary the sum of one thousand dollars at the death of Elbert W. Byram, on specified conditions. Elbert W. Byram, by due course of procedure, became a member of Lone Pine Camp, No. 85, at Diagonal, Iowa, and he died about September 4, 1896, and this action is to recóver the amount of the certificate. The answer pleads expulsion, nonpayment of dues, and other matters that may be…
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