Jones v. Mangan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: F. 0. Eschweileb, Circuit Judge. This is a controversy to determine the ownership of the proceeds of a benefit certificate in the Firemen Eelief Association of the City of Milwaukee, defendant. The money was paid into court, and the question is whether it belongs to the plaintiff or the interpleaded defendants. The insured, Eich-ard J. Burke, deceased, was never married.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: F. 0. Eschweileb, Circuit Judge. This is a controversy to determine the ownership of the proceeds of a benefit certificate in the Firemen Eelief Association of the City of Milwaukee, defendant. The money was paid into court, and the question is whether it belongs to the plaintiff or the interpleaded defendants. The insured, Eich-ard J. Burke, deceased, was never married. In his application for membership in the defendant association he designated plaintiff as “mother.” The principal points raised by the assignments of error…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewiN, J.
Under tbe articles of incorporation of tbe defendant, upon tbe death of a member in good standing tbe sum of $1,500 shall be paid to tbe beneficiary or beneficiaries named in bis application and membership certificate, provided such beneficiary be either widow, child or children, mother or father, sister or brother, niece or nephew, of such deceased member.
Tbe statute set out in tbe statement of facts, sec. 1987 as amended (Supp. 1906: Laws of 1899, cb. 145), provides that “The members of tbe paid fire or police department in any city heretofore or hereafter organized, who comply with tbe…
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