Legal Opinion

Sovereign Camp, W.O.W. v. Penn

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 27, 1935No. 31688PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant is a fraternal 'life insurance order of which the appellee was for a number of years a member.1

Claiming that the appellant had wrongfully canceled and declared that it would no longer recognize his certificate of membership and insurance, the appellee sued the appellant for, and Recovered, the amount of the monthly assessments paid by him to- it.

The appellant contends that the court below should have granted its request for- a directed verdict; and, if not, that two of the appellee’s instructions to the jury are wrong.

The…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n v. FerrenbachCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
  3. Germania Life Insurance v. BouldinMississippi Supreme Court · 1911
  4. Odd Fellows Ben. Ass'n v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1935

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Old Ladies Home Assn. v. HallMississippi Supreme Court · 1951
  2. Callender v. Lamar Life Ins. Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1938

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