Andersen v. Independent Order of Foresters

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The defendant, a corporation organized under the laws of the Dominion of Canada as a beneficial association, duly authorized to do business in this state, having appointed the commissioner of banking and insurance as its agent on whom process may be served, issued its certificate of insurance on the life of plaintiff’s husband, in which she was named as beneficiary. The husband died and plaintiff brought suit on the certificate and recovered a judgment by default which she caused to be docketed in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of…