District Grand Lodge No. 18 v. Cothran

I. Where the wife of a member of a mutual benefit association, who is named as a volunteer beneficiary in a certificate issued by the association, dies without leaving child or children, and without debts, prior to the death of the member, and where it does not appear that in the constitution or by-laws of the association, or in the certificate issued by it, there is any provision for payment of the benefit on failure of a beneficiary qualified to take such benefit, and where no such provision is made by the statutes of this State, neither the administrator of the deceased member nor the…