Valentine
Valentine v. Grand Lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hall, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for the sum of $1,247.20, being the amount of the principal and interest of a beneficiary certificate issued by defendant to Jacob Valentine in his lifetime, and payable on his death to plaintiff.
The appeal comes to this court upon the judgment-roll, and the appellant contends that on the facts found the judgment should have been for defendant.
From the facts found it appears, among other things, that defendant is, and for more than thirty years last past has been, a fraternal, charitable, beneficial and benevolent society, having for its objects, among other things, to pledge the members to the payment of a stipulated sum to such beneficiary as a deceased member may have designated, while living, under such restrictions and upon such conditions as the laws of the order may prescribe.
The defendant is a corporation organized as such under the laws of the state of California, and ever since the incorporation of defendant San Francisco Lodge No. 4 has been a subordinate lodge thereof under and within its jurisdiction.
Jacob Valentine became a member of the said lodge and the order in 1876, and the…