Ingersoll v. Pond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond. Decree for defendants. Complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
In the year 1887, John L. Ingersoll, Sr., father of appellant, John L. Ingersoll, Jr., and of appellees, Ida O. Pond and Ella O. Krengel, became a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows (chartered under the laws of the State of Rhode Island) and had issued to him a benefit certificate or policy of insurance of $3,000, payable upon death of the insured to his wife.
The by-laws of the society provided, that in the event of the death of the beneficiary, without any new designation, as provided in the by-laws, the benefit should go to the nest of kin of the insured within the second degree of…
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