Schonfield v. Turner
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from Rusk. Tried below before the Hon. J. G. Hazlewood. This is a litigation as to the right to money paid into court by the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor upon a benefit certificate issued by it to David Sehonfield for $2000. The certificate was payable to defendant in error. The widow and children of Sehonfield contest the claim of the payee. Losing the case below, they bring writ of error'. The opinion sufficiently states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
HENREY, Associate Justice.
The order of Knights of Honor is an. incorporated body. One purpose of its existence is to furnish insurance: upon the lives of the members of its subordinate lodges.
In the year 1880 one David Schonfield became a member of the order. Among the objects of the corporation its charter states one in the following language:
“To promote benevolence and charity by establishing a widows and *327orphans benefit fund, from which, on satisfactory evidence of the death of a member of the corporation who has complied with its lawful requirements, a sum not exceeding five thousand…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Price v. Supreme Lodge Knights of HonorTexas Supreme Court · 1887
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