Cullin v. Supreme Tent of Knights of Maccabees of the World
New York Supreme Court
Action by Rosa Cullin against Supreme Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World to recover $2,000 on an endowment certificate. Defendant moves for a new trial on exceptions ordered to be heard at general term in the first instance after direction of a verdict in favor of plaintiff. Denied.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
The principal exception brought up for consideration was taken to the direction of a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. This action was brought to recover the sum of $2,000 upon an endowment certificate issued by the defendant to the plaintiff’s husband. The defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of Michigan, having its principal office at Port Huron in that state. Its object, among other things, is “to establish a benefit fund or funds, from which, on satisfactory evidence of the death of a member of the order who has complied with all its lawful-requirements, a sum not…
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