Kruger

The plaintiff was admitted to membership in the defendant corporation on the twenty-sixth *100 day of February, 1886. A certificate of membership was then issued to her, by which it was stipulated and agreed that “if the said Mary Kruger shall fully comply with the laws and regulations of said association, and shall pay to said association the annual dues, at the rate of two dollars for each one ^thousand dollars benefit provided by this certificate, and shall pay within thirty days after notification each assessment made and levied by said association, in accordance with its by-laws, she shall be entitled to a benefit of ten thousand dollars, to be paid in five equal installments or endowments, at periods as follows, to wit: First endowment April 26, 1893,” etc.

Attached to the certificate were endowment coupons, the first of which stated “ that Mary Kruger is entitled to receive the sum of two thousand dollars as the first payment of her endowment certificate, etc., on April 26, 1893.”

After the maturity of the said first coupon plaintiff presented the same to the defendant corporation at its office, and demanded payment of the amount due thereon, but payment was refused. She…