Miller v. Head Camp
Oregon Supreme Court
From Harney: Morton D. Clifford, Judge. This is an action by Sarah C. Miller against the Head Camp, Pacific Jurisdiction, Woodmen of the World — a corporation organized on'the lodge plan, as a benefit society, under the laws of Colorado — to recover the sum of $1,000 on a certificate of mutual life insurance issued by it to her son, F. T. Miller, and in which she is named as the beneficiary.
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From Harney: Morton D. Clifford, Judge. This is an action by Sarah C. Miller against the Head Camp, Pacific Jurisdiction, Woodmen of the World — a corporation organized on'the lodge plan, as a benefit society, under the laws of Colorado — to recover the sum of $1,000 on a certificate of mutual life insurance issued by it to her son, F. T. Miller, and in which she is named as the beneficiary. Miller died January 18,1899, having been a member of Harney Valley Camp, No. 381, a subordinate lodge at Burns, Oregon ; and, the defendant refusing to pay any part of the sum specified in the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Moore
1. There being no bill of exceptions, the only question involved is whether the findings of fact support the judgment: Noland v. Bull, 24 Or. 479 (33 Pac. 983); Allen v. Leavens, 26 Or. 164 (37 Pac. 488, 26 L. R. A. 620, 46 Am. St. Rep. 613); Richardson v. Dunlap, 26 Or. 270 (38 Pac. 1).
The court found, in effect, that the defendant is a corporation, as alleged ; that it issued to F. T. Miller a certificate in which its by-laws were referred to as a part thereof; that in October and November, 1898, the defendant duly declared assessments on all its members on account of death losses, which…
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