Court Opinion

ID: 9868395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:33:11.292563+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:49.902175
License: Public Domain

On Petition to Reheab.
It is urged through the petition for rehearing that the association does not fall within the saving provision of section 6421, Code of 1932, because it is not of a purely religious, charitable, and benevolent description.
The section referred to excludes from the regulatory provisions of the Code (1) domestic lodges or orders of a purely religious, charitable, and benevolent description, or (2) associations of a purely religious, charitable, and benevolent description, which do not provide for a death benefit of more than $100.00.
The purpose of the McNairy County Burial Association was to provide a benefit of not exceeding $100.00 for the burial of its members at death, and by that means relieve the public of a possible burial charge and relieve families in particular cases of the humiliation of seeing their kindred or neighbors classified and buried as paupers. Such an object brings this association clearly with in the provision of the Code excluding benevolent societies as stated in the opinion heretofore filed.
Rehearing denied.