Case ID: la-app_8/html/0478-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WESTERFIELD, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 10,224
    Orleans
    CLARK v. SOVEREIGN CAMP WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
    (June 4, 1928. Opinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court)
    1. Louisiana Digest — Associations — Par. 21; Insurance — Par. 169.
    The stipulation in an insurance certificate, issued by a fraternal order, limiting the time in which actions may he brought thereunder to one year is valid.
    Appeal from Civil District Court, Div. “B.” Hon. Mark M. Boatner, Judge.
    Action by Mrs. Delia Clark, tutrix,' against Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World.
    There was judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed.
    Judgment affirmed.
    George Sladovich, of New Orleans, attorney for plaintiff, appellant.
    A. B. Booth ánd P. D. Olivier, of New Orleans, attorneys for defendant, appellee.
   WESTERFIELD, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment maintaining a plea of prescription of one year as against a suit on a life insurance certificate issued by the defendant, a fraternal order or society.

James B. Murphy held an insurance certificate in the defendant society in which the plaintiff is named as beneficiary. He died June 9, 1920, Mrs. Clark, the present plaintiff, brought a suit on the certificate June 9, 1921. That suit was dismissed on exception of no cause of action by judgment signed July 28, 1922. This suit was filed January 4, 1924. The policy sued on contains a clause reading as follows:

“No suit shall be maintainable to enforce the performance of this contract after one year from the date of such loss.”

Such stipulation is valid. Blanks vs. Insurance Company, 36 La. Ann. 602.

It is clear that this suit was brought after prescription had run, even if the first suit in which the demand was made in plaintiff’s behalf, whereas this suit is brought by her, as tutrix of her minor children, be considered as an interruption of prescription.

The judgment appealed from must be and it is affirmed.