Union Relief Ass'n v. Evans

The defendant was a mutual assessment and burial-benefit relief association. Plaintiff's husband was a member thereof, and on his death and the subsequent refusal of the defendant to pay the assessment and burial benefit to which the plaintiff claimed she was entitled upon her husband’s death, she brought this suit. From the uncontradicted evidence and facts alleged in the answer of the defendant, it appears that on August 6, 1931, at the last regular meeting of the defendant attended by the plaintiff’s husband, he was in arrears $5.50 on account of assessments and dues; that the constitution…