Pollak v. Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum

The defendant is an incorporated membership fraternal society. One of its defined objects is the following: “ 5th. To establish a Widows and1 Orphans’ Benefit Fund, from which on the satisfactory evidence of the death of a member of the order, who has complied with all its lawful requirements, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars shall he paid to the wife, children, relatives of or persons dependent upon such member as limited and described in the laws of said order relating to Benefit Certificates, as he may direct in accordance with said-laws.”

On February 12, 1890, Edward Poliak,…