Metropolitan Accident Ass'n v. Taylor

Appellant is a mutual benefit association, organized under the act of July 18, 1883. On the 9th of January, 1894, it issued its certificate of membership to Homer E. Taylor, of Brockton, Illinois, who is alleged to have been killed by an engine of the C. & ET. W. E. E. Co., near the city of Clinton, Iowa, on the 5th of August, 1894. Appellee, his mother, named in said certificate as ' beneficiary in case of his death, brought this action thereon, which was tried by the court ivithout a jury, and resulted in a finding and judgment in her favor for $1,053.33; from which judgment on exceptions…