The Fraternal Monitor Volume 31, No. 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...is due credit for the marvelous growth and splendid conditions of this great association. The Senator is resourceful and versatile. A keen lawyer, his counsel is potent in directing the course of the Society away from the legal shoals that have wrecked many such institutions. His fund of knowledge, his quick repartee, his fine humor and his splendid delivery mark him as one of the orators officially connected with the Society. His scholarly attainments enable him to grace any public function. Above all, his sense of justice and big heart cause him to see and know the rights of the member in the adjudication of claims against the Society. To him has fallen the task of adjusting numerous claims against the Association involving many thousands of dollars--and few, if any, complaints have been heard from claimants. Senator Wilson is a man of affairs, who has faithfully and efficiently discharged every duty, public and private, during his career of great activity.--Statutos defining the beneficiaries of fraternal certificates are. very particular as to the person receiving the benefits. In a decision of the Tennessee court. Allen vs. Cunningham, 223 S. W. 450, it was held that a son-in-law could not be a beneficiary after his wife died. A member of the United Order of the Golden Cross first named her two sons and a daughter as beneficiaries. She afterwards went to live with her daughter and son-in-law. The latter paid one-half the assessments for a short time after marriage and then assumed and paid all the assessments until death of the member. The daughter died and the member continued to live with her son-in-law and was dependent upon him for support. When the member died the two sons contested with the son-in-law for the proceeds of the certificate, the Soci...