Holyland v. Protected Home Circle

Citations

• 71 Pa. Super. 66
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 461

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial associations — Set-off of assessments against disability allowance.</p> <p>Where there is due to a member of a beneficial association a disability allowance in an amount greater than assessments due, the society cannot set up a forfeiture declared in the member's lifetime, for nonpayment of assessments, in a suit brought by a beneficiary against the society after the member’s death, to recover the benefit due under the old age insurance at the date of the member’s death. In such a ease it is immaterial that the society consisted of local circles and a supremp circle, if it appears that members of the local circle were equally members of the supreme circle, and that the supreme circle dealt with its members through the intervention of the local circles in collecting assessments and dues; and it is also immaterial that certain of the dues were, under the rules of the society, retained by the local circle.</p>