Case Name: Gentry vs. Sup. Lodge Knights of Honor
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885-07
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 30
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gentry vs. Sup. Lodge Knights of Honor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 30–30

Head Matter:
Gentry vs. Sup. Lodge Knights of Honor.
(U. S. Circuit Court D. Ind.,
July, 1885.)
Insurance, Life. What beneficiary may be named by member of mutual assurance society. What he takes.

Opinion:
The charter of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor, which provides for the payment of a sum of money upon the death of a member " to his family or as he may direct," has been correctly construed by the order as allowing the member to designate as his beneficiary any person, whether a member of his family or not. The privilege thus reserved to the member is a power of appointment of a recipient of a fund, which power is revocable, with the consent of the order and in conformity to-its rules and regulations, at the will of the member who has made such an appointment. The beneficiary thus appointed by a member of the order has no vested interest in fund by reason of the appointment, but-takes an interest subject to the power of the member to revoke the appointment, with the consent of the order, and in conformity to its-rules and regulations. — Insurance Law Journal.