Triple Tie Benefit Ass'n v. Wood

Citations

• 73 Kan. 124
• 84 P. 565
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 217

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Fraternal Insurance — Application — Membership — Monthly Assessment. The constitutional provisions of a fraternal insurance association relating to beneficiary certificates constitute a part of the contract between such association and its members. When the constitution of such an organization' provides that “no beneficiary certificate shall be or become effective or in force until executed by the supreme president and supreme secretary, countersigned by president and secretary of the local council to which the member may belong, and the conditions of the certificate accepted by the member to whom it is issued in writing on his certificate,” a monthly assessment paid at the time an application is made for membership in such order cannot be applied before such constitutional provisions have been complied with.</p>