# Brown v. Mystic Workers of the World

> Appellate Court of Illinois · November 19, 1909 · 151 Ill. App. 517

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8808233

## Case

- **Full name:** Robert Brown, in Error v. Mystic Workers of the World, in Error
- **Court:** Appellate Court of Illinois
- **Decided:** November 19, 1909
- **Citations:** 151 Ill. App. 517; 1909 Ill. App. LEXIS 764
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mack
- **Judges:** Chytraus, Mack
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Mack, J. While I concur in the judgment, it is unnecessary and I am not prepared to determine whether such a statement of the insured as was here offered in evidence is admissible, under the rulings in the Hansen and the Van Frank cases, against a beneficiary even under a fraternal insurance certificate and even though the beneficiary’s rights are contingent in the sense that the insured has the absolute right to change the beneficiary. See 5 Wigmore Evidence, sec. 1081, n. 6, and A. M. Kales “Declarations of the insured against the beneficiary,” 6 Columbia Law Rev. 509.

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