Lodge v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America

The opinion of the.court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover on a policy of fraternal insurance.

In 1919 the Order of United Commercial Travelers of America, an incorporated fraternal society of Ohio, issued a policy of life and accicjent insurance to Chester Melvin Lodge, of Concordia, in which the plaintiff, Mabel E. Lodge, was represented by the insured to bear the relation of wife to himself and was named as beneficiary.

In the policy of insurance was incorporated a synopsis of a governing Ohio statute, with appropriate references to it and to the by-laws of the order.…