Bower v. New Era Ass'n

Citations

• 67 Pa. Super. 175
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 367

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life insurance — Beneficial association — Application not attached to policy — Act of May 11, 1881, P. L. BO.</p> <p>In an action on a contract in writing- purporting to be a “benefit certificate” which had some of the properties of a life insurance policy and some of a mere certificate of a beneficial order, the trial judge cannot be convicted of error in excluding the offer of an application not attached to the policy, where a witness for the defendant testifies that he was in the insurance business, that he represented the defendant association; that he had written an application of insurance for the insured; that he was manager of defendant at the time and was employing other agents, that such agents went out and took applications for insurance and brought them to him, and he then obtained policies of insurance from the .company; without any testimony that any lodge was in the State of Pennsylvania, or that the soliciting agents were engaged in instituting lodges.</p>