Ward v. David & Jonathan Lodge

Citations

• 90 Miss. 116
• 43 So. 302

Syllabus

<p>1. Benefit Societies. Membership. Recourse to courts. Remedies within order.</p> <p>Where the laws of a benefit .society provide appeals for the correction of erroneous decisions touching the rights of its members, an application by a member to the courts for relief will not be entertained until he has exhausted his remedies within the society.</p> <p>2. Same. New laws. Validity.</p> <p>A duly enacted law of a benefit society creating a compulsory insurance department, requiring the payment of a dollar per month by its members, except the aged and disabled, and barring those who fail to pay from meeting with a lodge is reasonable and valid, and, the by-laws authorizing it, may be applied as well to existing as to new members.</p>