Modern Woodmen of America v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The appellee brought assumpsit in the Champaign circuit court to recover as beneficiary under a benefit certificate of membership issued by the appellant order to Sylvester M. Davis, her husband, now deceased. She was awarded judgment in the sum of §2000, and on appeal the judgment was affirmed in the Appellate Court. This is the further appeal prosecuted by said order.
The benefit certificate contained a provision that the certificate should become void if the assured member should “become so far intemperate * * * as to permanently impair his health or to produce delirium tremens.” The…
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