Tebo v. Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Jaggard, J., denying a motion for a new trial. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect of transactions or considerations already past, must be presumed, out of respect to the legislature, to be intended not to have a retrospective operation. Endlich, Interp.
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Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Jaggard, J., denying a motion for a new trial. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect of transactions or considerations already past, must be presumed, out of respect to the legislature, to be intended not to have a retrospective operation. Endlich, Interp. St. §273; Wist v. Grand Lodge, 22 Ore. 271; Sedgwick, Const. St. 160; Bartruff v. Remey, 15 Iowa, 257; President v. Copeland,…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
Action to recover $1,000, the amount of a benefit certificate issued May 8, 1900, by the defendant to Earl Charles Tebo, hereafter designated as the “insured,” payable out of its widows’ and orphans’ benefit fund to his mother, the plaintiff, upon his death. The organization and purposes of the defendant are stated in Bost v. Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum, 87 Minn. 417, 92 N. W. 337. On the trial of the action, and at the close of the evidence, the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals from an order denying her motion for a new trial.
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- Bost v. Supreme Council Royal ArcanumSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
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