Kerr v. Crane
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on May 23, 1910, and afterwards amended, in which it was alleged that the defendant New England Order of Protection, a Massachusetts fraternal beneficiary corporation, issued to one of its members, one Merritt B. Crane, a, benefit certificate, that the defendant John W. Crane, a cousin of the member, was named the beneficiary therein under an agreement between him, Merritt B. Crane and the plaintiff, that he would pay the…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on May 23, 1910, and afterwards amended, in which it was alleged that the defendant New England Order of Protection, a Massachusetts fraternal beneficiary corporation, issued to one of its members, one Merritt B. Crane, a, benefit certificate, that the defendant John W. Crane, a cousin of the member, was named the beneficiary therein under an agreement between him, Merritt B. Crane and the plaintiff, that he would pay the proceeds of the certificate after the death of Merritt B. Crane to the plaintiff. Merritt B. Crane having died and John…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The findings made by the single justice were well warranted and cannot be reversed. The case must be decided upon those findings.
The benefit certificate taken by Merritt B. Crane in the defendant order could not have been made payable to the plaintiff, who came within none of the classes named in the statute or in the “general laws” of the order. R L. c. 119, § 6. Massachusetts *226Foresters v. Callahan, 146 Mass. 393. Marsh v. American Legion of Honor, 149 Mass. 512. Lavigne v. Ligue des Patriotes, 178 Mass. 25. Nor could he acquire any rights in the certificate or its proceeds from any…
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