Hunziker v. Supreme Lodge K. of P.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 47 — Action by Louisa Hunziker against Supreme Lodge Knights op Pythias, por Amount op Insurance Policy on her Deceased Husband. APPEAL PROM PULTON CIRCUIT COURT.
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Case 47 — Action by Louisa Hunziker against Supreme Lodge Knights op Pythias, por Amount op Insurance Policy on her Deceased Husband. APPEAL PROM PULTON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. ' 1. At the time the policy in question was taken out, December 31, 1888, there was no by-law against suicide nor was there any stipulation in the policy against it, but a by-law was enacted by the lodge in August -or .September, 1896, providing that if any member committed suicide, voluntary or involuntary, sane or insane, the amount to be paid under such policy as decedent held…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE SETTLE
Reversing.
Gustave Hunziker died in the city of Hickman, Fulton county, this State, November 30, 1902, of pistol-sbot wounds inflicted by his own hand. He left, surviving him, a wife, Louisa Hunziker, and a daughter, Linda Hunziker, who is his only child. Many years before his depth, Gustave Hunziker, then,-as at the time of his death, a resident of Hickman, became a member of a lodge in that city of the secret fraternal order known as the “Knights of Pythias,” the governing or chief body of which is styled “Supreme Lodge Knijghts of Pythias.” This) governing…
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