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  "id": 5410013,
  "name": "Emily Scott, Appellee, v. United Order of Foresters, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Scott v. United Order of Foresters",
  "decision_date": "1917-02-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,005",
  "first_page": "455",
  "last_page": "456",
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      "cite": "203 Ill. App. 455"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Emily Scott, Appellee, v. United Order of Foresters, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice McG-oorty\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice McG-oorty"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Frank F. Aring, for appellant.",
      "Hoyne, O\u2019Connor & Irwin, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Emily Scott, Appellee, v. United Order of Foresters, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,005.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed February 9, 1917.\nRehearing denied February 19, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Emily Scott, plaintiff, against United Order of Foresters, defendant, to recover $1,000 on a certificate of membership in defendant Order on account of the death of her husband. From a judgment for plaintiff for $1,000 on remittitur of $45, defendant appeals.\nFrank F. Aring, for appellant.\nHoyne, O\u2019Connor & Irwin, for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 120 \u2014when interpretation of contract favorable to insured will be adopted. If a contract of insurance is susceptible of two interpretations, that one will be adopted which is most favorable to the assured.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 747 \u2014when member of fraternal insurance association is bound by constitutional amendments or subsequently enacted by-laws. A member of a fraternal insurance association is bound by constitutional amendments or by-laws enacted after his admission to the association which impair the obligations of his contract on admission injuriously only when he in express terms agreed to be so bound, and in the absence of such express agreement his contract of membership cannot be impaired by subsequent changes effected by the association.\n3. Insubance, \u00a7 747 \u2014when member of fraternal insurance association is not bound by subsequently enacted by-law. Where a benefit certificate issued and delivered to a member of a fraternal insurance association on his admission provided that he assented to the by-laws of the association \u201cprescribed from time to time\u201d by the association, held that a subsequent by-law of the association did not become a part of his contract of insurance and that he would not be bound by it.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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