Independent Order of Sons & Daughters of Jacob of America v. Moncrief

Citations

• 96 Miss. 419
• 50 So. 558

Syllabus

<p>1. Chancery Pleadings and Practice. Exhibits to pleadings. Demurrers.</p> <p>Where a hill in equity against a fraternal order charged that the defendant’s liability to complainant became fixed by specified sections of its constitution and by-laws and required the order to file copies of the same, to become when filed exhibits to the bill, the same when filed by defendant become parts of the bill in determining its sufficiency on demurrer.</p> <p>2. Insurance. Fraternal orders. Forfeiture of membership. Siete benefits. By-laws.</p> <p>Where the by-laws of an order, which forfeited membership on a failure to pay dues, authorized it to provide benefits for sick members only on condition that, and when, the order had taken action and voted him the benefit, a member in arrear for dues, to whom no benefit was ever allowed, cannot escape a forfeiture of his membership on the claim that “sick benefits” should have been credited to his dues.</p>