Glaziers' Local Union No. 963 of Brotherhood of Painters v. Rawley

FICKLING, Associate Judge.

Appellant union1 is the local affiliate of The Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America.2 Elmer C. Reeves was a member in good standing of both organizations at the time of his death and was survived by three children who paid his funeral expenses and who received $500 in death benefits from the Local.

Appellee, a friend of the decedent, was the named beneficiary of the death benefits of the Brotherhood, which she received, and she then brought this action against the Local to recover their death benefits in the sum of $500. From a judgment in…