Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W. v. Martin
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill of interpleader. Defendants each filed answer. From the decision of the sitting Justice, an appeal was entered by Forest L. Martin, one of defendants. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Deasy J.
Bill of interpleader. The sum of two thousand dollars being the amount of a beneficiary certificate issued by the complainant corporation to George A. Martin, Jr., deceased has been paid into the Clerk of Courts for the County of Penobscot to be disposed of under direction of court.
Georgie A. Penney, daughter, and Forest L. Martin brother of the deceased each claims the fund, the former as original, the latter as substituted beneficiary.
George A. Martin, Jr. on Feb. 26, 1917, the day before his death, signed a formal instrument purporting to substitute the name of his brother for that…
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