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Show HOLDS INSURANCE ORDER TO CONTRACT Judge of Washington Court Benders Decision Against Knights of tho Maccabees. TACOMA, Wash., Fob. 21. In a decision de-cision today Judge Clifford of the superior su-perior court sustained Jesse Thomas in Lis action against the Knights of tho MaccabeeB ox tho World to prevent the organization from raising his insurance assessment from 90 cents to $3 a month. Thomas joined the order in 1896. In 1001 the assessment was raised without tho consent of the plaintiff. Judgo Clifford finds that, although similar litigation lit-igation in Michigan and other states had resulted in the defendant being sustained by tho supreme courts, the supreme court of New York and other stalos had decided for the plaintiff, holding that the original certificato was a contract and could not be changed without the consent of the holder. |