Bacon v. Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen

The defendant brotherhood, a voluntary association, organized and maintained for the mutual aid, benefit, and insurance of its members, issued to plaintiff’s son, Pliny, naming him as William Lowery, which name he had assumed, its certificate or policy, of date March 26, 1888, by the terms of which it agreed and promised to pay such amount of insurance as might at the time of his death be justly due and owing, according to the provisions of its constitution, — admittedly $1,000 in this instance, — as well as a like sum in case of his disability. The assured died on the 10th of March, 1889. In…