Richey v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from. Polk District Court. — W. S. Ayres, Judge. The plaintiff bad a recovery as beneficiary of a certificate issued by the defendant, and it appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSalinger, J.
1. Insurance : unreasonable changes in by-laws. I. In March, 1895, tlie defendant issued a benefit certificate to one Harry A. Richey. This certificate was accepted with a provision that the same should be liable to forfeiture if the assured should fail to comply with the “conditions, constitutions, fundamental laws and such by-laws as are or may be adopted” by the insuring society. Some four years after what is claimed to be the disappearance of Richey, the by-laws were made by the society which provide that it shall be a binding condition of the certificate that:
“The absence or…
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