State Ex Rel. Little v. Carter

By the Court.

That portion of the section of the by-laws making the decision of the board of trustees final on questions of dependency has no bearing upon this case, since under the by-laws the feature of dependency may affect the dependency of others, but does not affect this widow. Under the stipulation the relator was still the member’s wife at the time of his death, and became thereafter his widow, within the purview of the by-laws. While it is true that she had filed an action for divorce against her husband, it indisputably appears that no decree was ever entered on the journal, nor upon…