Calhoun v. Maccabees

This was a suit by Katy Calhoun, joined pro forma by her husband; against the Maccabees, a fraternal insurance order doing business in Texas, to recover the amount of a life certificate for the sum of $1,000, of which she was beneficiary, issued to William H. Boyle, her brother, who died some time during the month of June, 1918, in France, while a member of the United States Expeditionary Army in *102tlie late war. Tlie trial court denied recovery upon tlie ground that Boyle was in arrears tor dues and assessments on March. 1, 1918, and had been legally suspended from the order, and his…