Monizi v. Sociedade Portugueza de Santo Antonio Beneficente de Hawaii

OPINION OP THE JUSTICES BY

ROBERTSON, C.J.

This is a submission on agreed facts. One Jacintho P. Eelina died on May 13, 1912, at South San Francisco, County of San Mateo, California, being at the time of his death a member in good standing of the defendant society, a mutual benefit society which is duly incorporated under the laws of Hawaii; the society maintained an agency in Oakland, California, through which the deceased, up to the time of his death, paid his dues and received sick benefits; upon the death of any member in good standing the society is required by the terms of its by-laws to…