Modern Woodmen of America v. Tevis
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Does the habitual collection by the clerk of a local lodge of a fraternal beneficiary association of the benefit assessments within i month and 20 days after the time when, by the by-laws of the association and the terms of the certificates, they becom'e due, and the members become suspended, and their certificates avoided, waive prompt payment thereof, and estop the society from maintaining that the members were suspended, and that their certificates were avoided, within the customary period of extension of the time of payment? This is the issue presented by the case…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. EgglestonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Insurance Co. v. WolffSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Thompson v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Phoenix Ins. Co. v. DosterSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Knights of Pythias v. WithersSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
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- Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World v. NewsomSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
- Trotter v. Grand Lodge of the Iowa Legion of HonorSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- Modern Woodmen v. TevisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1902
- Winter v. Supreme Lodge Knights of PythiasMissouri Court of Appeals · 1902
- Knights of the MacCabees of the World v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
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