Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor v. Jones
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Knox Circuit Court; Orlando H. Cobb, Judge. Action by Joseph E. Jones and others against the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWiley, P. J.
December 20, 1888, appellant lodge issued to Joseph L. Jones a certificate of membership in its company, by which it agreed to pay to his wife, who was named therein as beneficiary, the sum of $1,000 at his death. He was at that time a member of one of said appellant’s subordinate lodges at Mt. Carmel, Illinois. He held his membership in that lodge until it became defunct, and thereupon his membership was transferred to a subordinate lodge at Vincennes, Indiana. Later he moved "to Knobel, Arkansas, where he lived until the time of his death, which occurred March 10, 1901. Upon his death,…
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