Supreme Lodge Order of Mutual Protection v. Meister
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, on a policy of life insurance. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Alonzo K. Vickers, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1901. This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover the amount of an insurance policy issued upon the life of Nicholas Meister. Nicholas Meister came to his death June 14, 1894, by suicide.
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Assumpsit, on a policy of life insurance. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Alonzo K. Vickers, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1901. This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover the amount of an insurance policy issued upon the life of Nicholas Meister. Nicholas Meister came to his death June 14, 1894, by suicide. The cause of his death is not urged as a defense to the action; that insisted upon as a reason why appellee is not entitled to recover upon the policy is that Meister was not in good standing at the time of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
Upon the trial of the cause it appeared that Nicholas Meister, about a year before his death, was quite ill and financially embarrassed, so much so that he received from the subordinate lodge of which he was a member, sick benefits on one or two occasions, and he was once suspended from membership in the order by reason of his failure to pay assessments. Thereafter the subordinate lodge resolved to, and did, advance to the Supreme Lodge the assessments for non-payment of which he had been suspended, and in accordance with the…
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- Supreme Lodge Order of Mutual Protection v. MeisterAppellate Court of Illinois · 1898
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