Supreme Judicial Court of Maine November 7, 1892 (Richards v. Maine Benefit Ass'n)

Virgin, J.

Assuming without deciding that, to the question in the application,— "are you married, single, widower or widow?” the applicant’s answer, "widower” to have been substantially true, although the bonds of matrimony between him and his wife had been severed by a divorce a vinculo and not by death, and that, therefore, he was, on the date of his certificate, a legal member of the defendant