South Side Trust Co. v. Long

Citations

• 75 Pa. Super. 153
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 238

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial societies — Death benefits — Dues—Payments — Beneficial standing.</p> <p>The constitution of an unincorporated union provided that a member who did not pay his dues upon the first of the month would lose his beneficial standing, and that a member whose dues remained unpaid for a period of two months could be suspended. A member paid his dues for June on June 14th, and died on June 15th. Under such circumstances, it was held that the deceased, having died in the month of June, and haying failed to pay his dues for that month before the first of the month, was not entitled to sick and death benefits, although he still remained a member of the union.</p> <p>The mere receipt of the dues of a member, after the first day of the month upon which they should have been paid, was not a waiver of any right of the organization, for the constitution gave him the right to pay the dues at any time before it became the duty of the officers to suspend him, for a two months’ default. During these two months he would be a nonbeneficial member, but he had the right, by paying the dues as required by the constitution, to resume his beneficial standing with the beginning of the nest month.</p>