Schunck v. Gegenseitiger Wittwen und Waisen Fond

The plaintiff, as widow of Adam Schunck, deceased, brings this suit to recover from the defendant the sum of $800. She claims that her husband, at the time of his death, was a member in good standing of a grove (as it is called) of the order of Druids in Wisconsin, and, as such, was also a member of the defendant corporation. It appears that the defendant is a corporation organized and acting by the authority of the Grand Lodge of the United Ancient Order of Druids for this state. Its name indicates its character, being, as it is translated, “ Mutual Widows’ and Orphans’Fund.” There are…