Rancipher v. Women of Woodcraft

Citations

• 50 Wash. 68
• 96 P. 829
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 666

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Mutual Benefit Insurance — Daws of Order — Construction — Delivery of Certificate — Insurance When Effective. A member of a beneficial association in good standing having a benefit certificate for less than $2,000 has a right to an increase of her certificate, as a matter of right, after passing the medical examination with approval and complying with the laws of the order, where the laws provide that such a member can be permitted to increase her certificate by making application, surrendering the old certificate, being examined by the local physician and that the new certificate shall be issued if the application is approved by the grand physician, and where the by-laws did not reserve any discretion in the officers to withhold the new certificate; hence the new insurance is effective although the member died before delivery of the new certificate therefor (Fullerton, J., dissenting).</p>