Shultice v. Modern Woodmen of America

Citations

• 67 Wash. 65
• 120 P. 531
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1119

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial Associations — Agents—Clerk of Local Camp — ByLaws. The clerk of a local camp of a fraternal beneficial society is the agent of the society, and his knowledge is its knowledge, notwithstanding by-laws to the contrary effect, where he was the officer who collects, receipts for, and transmits the assessments, and the society had no other fund from which to pay death losses and no other means of collecting the assessments.</p> <p>Beneficial Associations — Forfeiture of Membership — Nonpayment of Dues — By-Laws—Waiver—Powers of Local Agent. Notwithstanding by-laws of a fraternal beneficial society limiting the right of delinquent members to reinstatement to those in good health, and providing that no local camp or officer can waive the by-laws, the society is liable on a death loss, where, after knowledge of suspension, it accepted and retained his monthly assessments, collected and transmitted by the local clerk with knowledge that the member had become insane; such notice of bad health to the local clerk being notice to the society whether communicated or not.</p>