Armstrong v. Blanchard
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: GeoRGke OleMENtsoN, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the executor of the last will and testament of Reuben D. Blanchard, deceased, to recover the amount of a benefit certificate issued by the Modem Woodmen of America, dated January 27,1892, payable by the terms of the certificate to Lucy Blanchard, adopted mother of the deceased.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: GeoRGke OleMENtsoN, Circuit Judge. This is an action by the executor of the last will and testament of Reuben D. Blanchard, deceased, to recover the amount of a benefit certificate issued by the Modem Woodmen of America, dated January 27,1892, payable by the terms of the certificate to Lucy Blanchard, adopted mother of the deceased. Lucy Blanchard died in 1901. Reuben D. Blanchard died in 1910 without having changed the beneficiary named in the benefit certificate pursuant to the by-laws of the society. By the by-laws of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecKeb, J.
The certificate, which is the contract of insurance, limits the amount due on it at the death of the member of the insurance order to $3,000, and specifies that it is issued subject to the fundamental laws of the order and is liable to forfeiture if the certificate holder does not comply with its conditions, the laws, by-laws, and such rules as are or may be adopted by the order. The assured has complied with all ■the conditions and the order is liable for the sum of $3,000 to whomsoever may be entitled thereto. This the representatives of the order acknowledged. They appeared in court…
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