Starvcevic v. National Croatian Society

Citations

• 44 Pa. Super. 231
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 158

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial associations — Benefits—Loss of leg — Sick benefits.</p> <p>Where the by-laws of a beneficial association provide for sick benefits payable by a local section at the rate of five dollars a week for nine months, and thereafter a payment of the same amount per week by the general society, but with a provision that when the beneficiary received $800 he ceases to be a member, and another by-law provides for the payment of $400 for the loss of a leg, a member who has received $5.00 a week for nine months from the local section and $400 for the loss of a leg, without waiving any of his rights to sick benefits from the general society is entitled to receive from the latter the difference between $800 and the total amount which he received, $580, that is to say $220.</p>