Campbell v. Supreme Conclave Improved Order Heptasophs
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On writ of error to the Supreme Court upon judgment recovered on verdict at the Salem Circuit. This cause was tried at the Salem Circuit, before the late Mr. Justice Ludlow and a jury.
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On writ of error to the Supreme Court upon judgment recovered on verdict at the Salem Circuit. This cause was tried at the Salem Circuit, before the late Mr. Justice Ludlow and a jury. The declaration was upon a benefit certificate issued January 35th, 1897, by a fraternal order, incorporated in Maryland, to Dr. John G, Campbell, of Elmer, Hew Jersey, a member of a subordinate conclave located in that town, wherein it promised, upon satisfactory evidence of his death and surrender of the certificate (provided he should be in good standing in the order at the time of his death, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collins, J.
It has been considered by some that benefit societies are sui generis as respects the payment of death benefits to dependents of their members, and that the uniform denial of the defence of unexcepted suicide in suits- to recover *276on their benefit certificates is to be placed on grounds peculiar to the character of such societies. There is no doubt that such defence has never been allowed. Bac. Ben. Soc., § 337, and eases cited. But these societies have no such peculiar status. Their benefits stand on the footing of all death claims. I shall…
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