Forrest v. Sovereign Camp W.O.W.

In this action at law, plaintiffs allege that the defendant issued a certificate insuring the life of Thomas A. Bell, and claiming that the certificate was in full force at the time of his death, seek to recover the amount of the certificate as beneficiaries therein named. The defendant filed an answer containing a general denial and alleging that the decedent, Bell, had permitted the certificate set out in plaintiff’s petition to lapse for nonpayment of dues and by reason thereof the certificate was of no force or effect at the time of the death of Bell. There was a trial, a verdict for…