Murray v. Supreme Lodge, New England Order of Protection
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a benefit-fund certificate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Mordback, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,144 damages, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
The certificate sued upon was issued by the defendant to Ellen T. Murray in May, 1898. In it the defendant agreed, among other things, that Ellen T. Murray should be entitled “ to participate in the relief and benefit fund of the order to the amount of one thousand dollars,” which sum, at her death, the defendant in said certificate agreed to pay to the plaintiffs, daughters of Ellen T. Murray. This agreement to pay was made upon certain express conditions, one of which was that statements made by Ellen T. Murray in her application for membership were true. On the trial it was conceded that…
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