Monger v. New Era Ass'n
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Berrien; Coolidge, J. Assumpsit by Maria Monger against the New Era Association on a policy of insurance. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlvav, J.
The plaintiff, as assignee of the beneficiary named in a certain benefit certificate of $1,000, issued to Llewellyn Monger, deceased, by defendant association, a Michigan corporation, brought suit to recover the same. She recovered in the circuit court a judgment for the amount of the certificate. This court is asked to reverse this judgment, principally upon the ground that plaintiff, before resorting to her suit at law, did not have her claim adjudicated in the properly constituted tribunals of the order, and that the court erred in refusing to so charge the jury, and in refusing to…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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