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Show DELINQUENT LODGEMEN CANNOT GET INSURANCE Case of Great Interest to-Fraternal Orfaklzatlons Decided De-cided by United States Circuit Court. ' ST. LOUIS, March 19. In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals an opinion was handed down today by Judge Thayer In the case of the Supreme Su-preme Council Royal Arcanum vs. Anna J. Taylor, which is remanded with instructions in-structions that the plaintiff is not entitled en-titled to recover. The decision will ba of interest to fraternal organizations and members who are Insured against death in these organizations. Anna J. Taylor is the widow of George F. Taylor, a member of the Royal Arcanum, Ar-canum, Arapahoe lodge of Denver, Colo. He was insured for $3000 In 1SJ1 and died in November, 1!00. Payment of the insurance certificate was contested contest-ed on the ground that he had not paid the monthly assessment of October, 1900, due on the last day of that month, and was therefore suspended according to the by-laws. The collector failed to pay Taylor's assessment for October, as he had been In the habit of doing when overdue, and when it was tendered three days later. Just before Taylor's death, it was refused re-fused on the ground under the by-laws Taylor was under suspension. Mrs. Taylor recovered Judgment against the supreme council, which appealed. Judge Thayer, writing the opinion, says the question at Issue Is to determine deter-mine whether th supreme council was cognizant of the rractlce of the collector collec-tor in accepting the assessment on Taylor Tay-lor after he was delinquent, and whether wheth-er it ratified such practice by accepting the delinquent's assessment in violation of its by-laws. He finds nothing in the evidence to warrant this assumption and orders the case remanded with instructions in-structions to the trial court to instruct the Jury that the plaintiff is not entitled en-titled to recover. |