Palmer v. Protected Home Circle

Citations

• 252 Pa. 201
• 97 A. 188
• 1916 Pa. LEXIS 594

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Beneficial association — Benefit certificate — By-laws— Amendment — Alteration- of contract.</p> <p>The obligation of a beneficial association to pay a bolder of a beneficial certificate tbe amount therein specified to be paid upon a contingency which has happened is not affected by an amendment of the association’s by-laws, made subsequent to tbe issuance of tbe certificate, changing the amount payable to a member, even where the member has agreed that compliance on his part with all the rules, regulations and requirements then in force or that might thereafter be enacted by the association was the express condition upon which he should be entitled to participate in the beneficiary fund.</p>