Security Benefit Ass'n v. Verdery
Supreme Court of Colorado
Action on life benefit certificate. Judgment for plain- Error to the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Hon. Greeley W. Whitford, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The suit is by Xenia A. Verdery, on a fraternal benefit certificate upon the life of Max H. Zimmerman, for $3,000.00. Mrs. Verdery at the time of the issuance of the certificate was Zimmerman’s wife. The certificate is *151dated March 7, 1907, and five years later Zimmerman disappeared. In August, 1914, plaintiff secured a divorce from him on the ground of desertion and later married Verdery. Judgment was for plaintiff and the Association brings the record here for review. In this opinion the parties are designated as in the court below.
It is the theory of plaintiff that notwithstanding her…
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- Richey v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the WorldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1918
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