Coughlin v. Knights of Columbus
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a death-benefit, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County, Curtis, J., upon the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiffs’ amended reply; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Patrick Coughlin died February 10th, 1904. For some time prior to his death he had been an insurance member of a fraternal benefit society or order, incorporated by this State under the name of the Knights of Columbus, and connected with a subordinate council of said order known as Aragon Council No. 127. He had designated the plaintiffs as beneficiaries of the death-benefit that might become payable on his death. This action is brought to recover $1,000 claimed as a death-benefit payable to the plaintiffs by force of the contract made by Patrick Coughlin with the defendant when he became an…
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