Barrett v. Supreme Conclave Improved Order of Heptasophs

Citations

• 265 Pa. 64
• 107 A. 158
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 498

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial societies — Beneficiaries — Refusal to interplead — Estoppel.</p> <p>Where there is but one fund in the hands of a beneficial association to be, paid to a beneficiary designated by a member, and it appears that the member changed the beneficiary by naming his wife instead of his mother, and the wife brings a suit against the society after the member’s death, and in this suit the mother refuses to interplead disclaiming any interest in the fund sought to be recovered by the wife and claiming another fund, the mother thereafter is estopped from maintaining any suit against the society.</p>