Walter v. Hensel
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Hensel, as administrator of George B. Everett, deceased, from a judgment of the district court for Nicollet county, (where the action was tried by Webber, J., without a jury,) adjudging that the plaintiff recover from the Minnesota Odd-Fellows’ Mutual Benefit Society the sum of $2,000, theretofore paid into court by that society. The action was originally brought against the society on a certificate issued to Geo.
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Appeal by defendant, Hensel, as administrator of George B. Everett, deceased, from a judgment of the district court for Nicollet county, (where the action was tried by Webber, J., without a jury,) adjudging that the plaintiff recover from the Minnesota Odd-Fellows’ Mutual Benefit Society the sum of $2,000, theretofore paid into court by that society. The action was originally brought against the society on a certificate issued to Geo. B. Everett, and, upon its paying the amount of the certificate into court, Hensel, who also claimed'it, was substituted as defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The Odd-Fellows’ Mutual Benefit Society is a corporation organized in 1870 under Gen. St. 1878, c. 34, tit. 3, relating to corporations other than those for pecuniary profit. The articles of association of the society state that “the general nature of its business, and its general purpose, is the insuring the lives of the members upon the plan of paying to the representatives of every deceased member a certain sum, to be assessed upon and received from the other members of said association.” The by-laws, after stating the purpose and object of the association in the same language as the…
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