Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor v. Portingall

This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Julia Portingall and George W. Portingall, minors, by their next friend, upon a beneficiary certificate for $1000 issued to their mother, Julia Portingall. By the certificate the money was payable to the three children of the assured, —that is, to the plaintiffs and another, John S. Portingall, since deceased. The mother died October 26, 1889, and John S. Portingall died August 22, 1892, at the age of sixteen years. The declaration alleged that his funeral expenses had been paid, that he owed no debts, that no administrator of his estate had been…