Winters Mut. Aid Ass'n v. Corum

Appellant is a local insurance organization in Runnels county, with headquarters at Winters, Tex., operated through a nonpaid board of directors and a paid secretary, upon a mutual aid assessment plan. B. F. Corum sued upon a certificate of membership issued by'appellant to his wife, in which he was named the beneficiary. The association defended on the ground that it had made an assessment against Mrs. Corum on June 5, 1926, which she had not paid within the 15 days allowed therefor, and that such delinquency at the time of her death on July 4, 1926, had forfeited her insurance.

A certificate…