Show A 0 U beneficiaries TO SHARE IN NEARLY judge howells hovells Hov ells decision in the action brought by william harcombe in the c se of william harcombe vs margaret edwards ct ill defendants and frank crocker Crock cr ct al inter lenors judge howell has handed down his decision this is the case of the A 0 U W clodgo funds in which after the order ceased in this jurisdiction to exist as a beneficiary organization several widows wives of former members sued for their funds twenty thousand dollars va s placed in the vault of the first national bank awaiting the decision of the court the money is ordered divided among the beneficiaries fici aries after a review of the case judge howell gave the following decision it is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that the persons per sois named on the tabulated list hereto attached as the beneficiaries of the deceased members whose names appear on said list are entitled out of the funds now in the hands of the county treasurer in pursuance of the order of alie court to the amounts set opposite their nimes and if after the findings of fact conclusions of law and decree aio made in accordance herewith no appeal be taken the said county treasurer is authorized and directed to pay out of the moneys in bis hands the said sums to the said beneficiaries or their attorneys of record receipts for the same except that he Is directed to retain in his hands until the further order of the court the sum of the amount to which the beneficiaries of james W pitts are until such time as the court shall determine to whom the said sum shall bo paid among the various claimants thereto namely laura A frank crocker julius doebler louis messer J beattie and louisa mleh ho Is directed also to retain in his hands tho sum of the amount to which the beneficiaries of george W are entitled they being minors and having no general guardian also the sum of the amount to which the beneficiaries of william mcgregor are entitled they being minors and having no general guardian and the bume of the amount to which helen C edward J and harry morris beneficiaries of richard C morris are entitled they being minor and having no general guardian chas E emery insured for 2000 beneficiary laura A emery wm T edwards insured for beneficiary margaret edwards P H fitzmaurice insured for 2 beneficiaries philip walter nellie and marle fitzmaurice lawrence scanlon guardian john baker insured for bene notary dora kohl J N scott insured for 2000 beneficiary fi bessie A scott richard C morris insured or 2 beneficiary david R morris moroni skeen guardian richard 0 morris beneficiaries helen C edw J and harry morris E H reed and skeen ddn ad iltem james W pitts insured tor beneficiary laura A pitts frank crocker assignee julius deeb garnishee louis cesaer J beattie and louisa mills morgan E james insured for 1 beneficiary naoma james dec A R heywood adar prank atkinson insured for 2000 beneficiary florence atkinson john insured for 2 augusta E P maxim insured for 2000 alice maxim patrick cavanaugh insured for 2 beneficiary margaret A caa john vicars insured for 2000 ben robert elizabeth and jane vicars of ago john and mary vicars minors wm guardian john R thomas insured tor 2000 beneficiary melessa thomas john J corby insured for 2000 beneficiary eliza H corby geo W insured for 2000 and leo gillespie Gillesp le minors J N kemball ddn ad iltem in R davis insured for beneficiary josephine M dails louis insured for 2000 hanav lessing Lessl ng nela N olsen insured tor 2000 matilda olsen john H dark insured for 2000 beneficiary mary J dark wm if odonnell insured for 2 mary odonnell vm mcgregor insured for trella A agnes mary arble may and arthur mcgregor WW H berrett insured for 2000 elsie berrett arthur smith insured for 2000 beneficiaries lou helen hazel and gladys smith nieces mary A smith the distribution of the funds now in the hands of the officers of the court to be without prejudice to the of the beneficiary defendants or either of diem to take such further steps in action as may be considered proper either by way of the or proof to secure the moneys from I 1 the officers of the grand lodge or their bondsmen which may have been wrongfully appropriated by them ac any the dismissal by certain of the defendants fend ants of their cross complaints against the supreme lodge to be also without prejudice to other actions which may be brought the said supreme lodge as guarantor for any deficiency to which they may be entitled under their policies 0 insurance or certificates these beneficiary defendants who have entered default against the lodge and are entitled so to do 0 o have judgment against haicl supreme lodge for the imbalance to which they are entitled under their policies of insurance or beneficiary certificates the result is that as october 1 was the date set for the merging of the grand lodge into the supreme lodge all the widows and children of members who died during october arc en tiled to an equal distribution of the funds because none could have joined the supreme lodge jurisdiction until november even had they so desired this includes all the defendants except matelson Mat hlson who discontinued his membership after having had an opportunity to renew it |