Supreme Conclave v. Miles
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.) The defendant’s third prayer asked the Court to instruct the jury that if they find from the evidence that benefit certificate No. 57103 was issued by the defendant company Miles Tull, in which N. J. P. Tull was named as beneficiary on the 5th day of August, 1898, and that if they further find that prior to the issuance of said benefit certificate to the said Miles Tull, to wit, on the 2nd day of August, 1898,…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.) The defendant’s third prayer asked the Court to instruct the jury that if they find from the evidence that benefit certificate No. 57103 was issued by the defendant company Miles Tull, in which N. J. P. Tull was named as beneficiary on the 5th day of August, 1898, and that if they further find that prior to the issuance of said benefit certificate to the said Miles Tull, to wit, on the 2nd day of August, 1898, he, the said Miles Tull, expressed the intention of not returning to his then home alive if he got no position ; and…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J.
This suit was instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City against the appellant, a Mutual Benefit Association, duly incorporated under the laws of Maryland, by one Nathan J. P. Tull to recover the amount of a benefit certificate issued by the said corporation to one Miles Tull, a son of the plaintiff, and made payable to the plaintiff. Pending the suit the said plaintiff died, and the appellees here, upon suggestion of his death, became parties plaintiff as administrators of his estate. The narr. in the case consisted of two counts, in each of which, after setting forth matter…
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