Biggs v. Modern Woodmen of America

This is an action on a $2,000 benefit certificate of the defendant by the widow of John W. Biggs, deceased, the beneficiary therein. After a trial resulting in a favorable jury verdict, judgment was entered for plaintiff in the sum of $1,912.55, being the full amount provided for by the certificate less eleven months' premiums thereon. Defendant appealed from this judgment to the Kansas City Court of Appeals. [1] The judgment was affirmed in an opinion adopted by a majority of the judges of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, but upon the dissent of one of the judges, who thought the judgment…