McKillips v. Railway Mail Association

Plaintiff, Henry A. McKillips, who for many years had been in the employ of the postoffice department as a railway mail clerk, was injured September 9, 1938, while engaged in lifting a mail sack from the floor of a mail car.

May 18, 1923, Railway Mail Association, a mutual benefit corporation, organized under the laws of the state of New Hampshire, and authorized to engage in business in the state of Washington, issued to plaintiff its “beneficiary department certificate,” whereby, in consideration of payments to be made by plaintiff and plaintiff’s agreement to comply with the by-laws and…