Masonic Benevolent Ass'n v. Bunch
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Hmnibal Court of Common Pleas, — Hon. Thomas H. Bacon, Judge. (1) Under the charter, constitution and by-laws of the respondent association, Lewis W. Bunch had no-power to designate David W. Bunch as his beneficiary,, because said David was neither the widow, orphan,, heir or devisee of Lewis.
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Appeal from Hmnibal Court of Common Pleas, — Hon. Thomas H. Bacon, Judge. (1) Under the charter, constitution and by-laws of the respondent association, Lewis W. Bunch had no-power to designate David W. Bunch as his beneficiary,, because said David was neither the widow, orphan,, heir or devisee of Lewis. The contract between an association like the one at bar and its members is to be found in its certificate, if one be issued, taken in connection with the constitution and by-laws of the society. Bacon on Benevolent Societies, sec. 161, and cases cited; Britton v. Supreme Cotmcil, 46 N. J.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
The controversy in this case is between the respondents, Catherine Bunch et al., as heirs of David Bunch, the beneficiary named in a certificate of life insurance issued by plaintiff association to one Lewis W. Bunch, on the one side, and R. E, Anderson, executor of said Lewis W. Bunch, on the other. The latter has appealed from a decree of the Hannibal court of common pleas, awarding to Catherine Bunch et al. the fund of $3,880 paid in to the court by the association in accordance with an interlocutory order upon its bill of interpleader exhibited against all of the respondents and the…
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