
    STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA on Relation of DAN C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, v. DISTRICT GRAND LODGE No. 7, GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS IN AMERICA, Inc.
    (Filed 27 January, 1931.)
    Insurance A d — Defendant held not subject to dissolution under provisions of C. S., 6524.
    An incorporated association of lodges doing business in North Carolina providing for payment of death benefits not exceeding five hundred dollars to any one person is not subject to proceedings in dissolution under the provisions of C. S., 6524, and a judgment accordingly entered is according to the express provisions of C. S., 6518, and will be upheld on appeal.
    Appeal by plaintiff from Harris, J., at Chambers, 27 September, 1930. From WaKE.
    Affirmed.
    
      Attorney-General Brummitt and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for plaintiff.
    
    
      L. L. Davenport and Clyde Douglass for defendant.
    
   Adams, J.

This is a proceeding for the dissolution of the defendant under C. S., 6524 on the alleged ground that it is doing business upon inadequate rates, is unable to meet its obligations, delays settlement of its claims, and is practically insolvent. The defendant denies these and other material allegations in the complaint and avers that it is an incorporated association of local lodges of a society which for more than fifty years has been and is now doing a business in this State and providing for the payment of death benefits not exceeding five hundred dollars to any one person. In his reply the plaintiff admits this allegation and in the judgment it is set forth as one of the findings of fact. Upon this admission and finding the trial court adjudged that articles 24 and 25 of chapter 106 of the Consolidated Statutes, under which the action was brought, do not affect or apply to the defendant. The judgment accords with the express provision of O. S., 6518, by which the defendant is exempted from the provisions of these statutes.

Judgment affirmed.  