Shultice v. Modern Woodmen of America
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Hinkle, J., entered February 20, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action on a life insurance certificate.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The plaintiff brought this suit to recover upon a beneficiary certificate, issued by the defendant upon the life of her husband. There was a verdict and judgment in her favor, from which the defendant has appealed.
The appellant is a foreign corporation, organized and doing business as a fraternal beneficiary society. It has subordinate lodges called local camps, in this and other states in the Union. On the 6th day of October, 1899, it issued its benefit certificate in the sum of $2,000 to Henry J. Shultice, payable to respondent upon the death of the insured. By the terms of the application,…
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