Bell v. Police Beneficiary Ass'n
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 299, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1919, No. 3817, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Robert J. Bell v. Police Beneficiary Assn., a corporation, and John Bell, Minnie Hannis, Jennie Menagh and Lydia Foultrod. Bill in equity for mandatory injunction. Before Shoemaker, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 299, Jan. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1919, No. 3817, dismissing bill in equity, in case of Robert J. Bell v. Police Beneficiary Assn., a corporation, and John Bell, Minnie Hannis, Jennie Menagh and Lydia Foultrod. Bill in equity for mandatory injunction. Before Shoemaker, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
Plaintiff is now, and has been since 1891, a member in good standing of the Police Beneficial Association of the City of Philadelphia. In the original certificate issued to him by the association he named as beneficiaries his wife, Jennie Bell, and his children. Jennie Bell died in 1914 and subsequently, upon his direction, a new certificate was issued in which he named his son and three daughters, the appellees, as the beneficiaries.
In 1918 plaintiff married a second time and later requested the association to change the beneficiaries in its certificate by naming…
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