Terwilliger v. National Masonic Accident Ass'n
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wilkin
This suit was brought by Georgiana Terwilliger against the National Masonic Accident Association of DesMoines, Iowa, on a certificate of membership in said association, to recover the sum of $5000 on account of the death of her husband, Jeremiah M. Terwilliger, who is alleged to have been accidentally killed while the certificate was in full force, etc. Several pleas were interposed by the defendant company, upon which issue was joined and the case tried by jury. The verdict was for the plaintiff, fixing her damag'es at $5357.64, upon which the circuit court, after overruling the defendant’s…
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