National Council Junior Order United American Mechanics v. Cragen

Mrs. Maggie P. Cragen, the widow of H. C. Crawford, sued the National Council of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics, for $500, as a death benefit due her by reason of the membership of her former husband, Crawford, in class B of the funeral-benefit department of the defendant order. Crawford joined the local council of the order in Savannah, in October, 1912. When he was initiated into the order he took a funeral-benefit certificate in class B of the funeral-benefit department of the national council, which entitled his beneficiary, in the event of his death, to a pajunent of $500.…