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  "name": "Freida Gauger, Appellee, v. American Patriots, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gauger v. American Patriots",
  "decision_date": "1914-01-12",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,428",
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Freida Gauger, Appellee, v. American Patriots, Appellant."
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Brown\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Albert J. W. Appell, for appellant.",
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    "head_matter": "Freida Gauger, Appellee, v. American Patriots, Appellant.\nGen. No. 18,428.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. F. Slater, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the March term, 1912.\nReversed with finding of fact.\nOpinion filed January 12, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Freida Granger against American Patriots, a fraternal insurance corporation, to recover upon a benefit certificate issued by defendant upon the life of Friedrich Danger. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for five hundred dollars, defendant appeals.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 746 \u2014when constitutional provision of fraternal order is-part of contract. Provisions of the constitution of a fraternal insurance order is a part of the contract where the certificate itself and its acceptance and the application for reinstatement are made subject to the constitution and the laws of the order.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 843 \u2014when constitution of fraternal order avoids certificate when member dies while in custody of the law. A section of the constitution of a fraternal insurance corporation providing, that if a member dies \u201cwhile in the custody of the law\u201d the certificate of membership shall be null and void applies so as to render the certificate void where the member dies while committed to the House of Correction, and the section applies though there is no causative connection between the custody and the death.\nAlbert J. W. Appell, for appellant.\nP. S. Webster, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, same topic and section number."
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