King v. Supreme Council Catholic Mutual Benefit Ass'n

Citations

• 216 Pa. 553
• 65 A. 1108
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 862

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial associations — Death benefits — Change of beneficiary.</p> <p>Where a beneficial association has paid death benefits into court, and a contest has arisen between a minor daughter of the deceased member representing her deceased mother, and a brother of the member, a judgment for the daughter will be sustained where it appears that the mother was originally named the beneficiary, that she was given the certificate of membership by her husband with the assurance that he would never change it, that the wife relying on this assurance paid out of her separate estate the assessments and charges upon the certificate until a time when, without her knowledge or consent her husband surrendered it to the association for a new certificate, in which his brother was substituted as the beneficiary.</p>