McClenaghan v. Cincinnatus Council

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 229
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 215

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial societies — Time—Default inpayment of dues.</p> <p>• In policies of life insurance time is material, and this is equally true of stipulations for prompt payment of dues and assessments by members of beneficial societies, and in such associations it is obviously necessary that it should be so.</p> <p>Where the subordinate councils of a beneficial association establish an unincorporated funeral benefit association composed of the different subordinate councils to raise a fund for the payment of funeral benefits, and the by-laws of one of the councils provides that each member shall be entitled to funeral benefits after his death, but that no member who is in default at the time of his death shall be entitled to any funeral benefits, the council cannot be compelled to pay funeral benefits for a member in default, although the council itself has received the funeral benefits from the funeral benefit association.</p>