Congower v. Equitable Mutual Life & Endowment Ass'n
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — Hon. J. L. Husted, Judge. Action at law to recover an endowment upon certificates in the defendant association. The lower court overruled a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition, and rendered judgment against defendant for the sum of one thousand dollars, and defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
1 The petition alleges, in substance, that in January, 1882, the defendant issued to plaintiff a certificate of membership, in which it agreed to pay, in ease of death, the proceeds of one full assessment, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, and, as an endowment, the following: “Endowment Claim. Upon surrender of this certificate by the aforesaid member or a legal holder, after having been kept in force for a period of ten full years, the Equitable Mutual Life and Endowment Association will pay to said member or legal holder his full share of the endowment fund of said…
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