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127, 54 L. R. A. 836, 85 Am. St. Rep. 2C>.°>; Sargent v. Knights of Honor. 158 Mass. 557, 33 N. E. 650; Mulderick v. Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W., 155 Pa. 505, 26 Atl. 6G3; Wist v. Grand Lodge A. O. U. W., 22 Or. 271, 29 Pac. 610, 29 Am. St. Rep. 603; Dudley v. Queen City Camp No. 27, W. O. W., 1 Tenn. Ch. App. 413; Roberts v. Cohen, 60 App. Div. 259, 70 N. Y. Supp. 57. The beneficiary has not a vested right and a change could have been made by the member but the legislation was intended to be pi tive and could not propria viffore disturb existing relations; Dadley v. Queen City Camp No. 27, W. O. W.. 1 Tenn. Ch. App. 4ia Where a statute authorizes a beneficial association to issue certificates for the benefit of certain enumerated relatives or dependents, and a person outside the specified classes is named in the certificate, that fact will not avoid the right in the fund of the beneficiaries designated by law; Royal League v. Shields, 251 111. 250, 96 N. E. 45, 36 I. R. A. (N. s.i 208. A servant is not a dependent; Grand Lodge A. O. U. W. of New Jersey v. Gaudy, G3 N. J. Eq. 692, 53 Atl. Relief Ass'n, 142 Mass. 224, 7 N. E. 844; or a brother-; Supreme Council American Legion of Honor v. Smith, 45 N. J. Eq. 4G6, 17 Atl. 770; an adopted child may or may not be a dependent, and the dependency will not rest upon whether there h;is been a legal adoption: Murphy v. Nowak, 223 111. 301, 79 X. E. 112, 7 L. R. A. (N. S.) 303. A person who assisted a deceased member and took care of him in his last illness was held not to be a dependent; Groth v. Central Verein der Gegenseitigen Unterstuetzungs Gesellschaft Germania, 95 Wis. 140, 70 N. W. 80; a creditor is not; Shillings v. Benefit Ass'n, 146 Mass. 217, 15 N. E. 566; nor an illegitimate child, even though the father had been boarding with the mother and paying therefor;. Lavigne v. Ligue des Patriotes, 178 Mass. 25, 59 N. E. 674, 54 L. R. A. 814, 86 Am. St. Rep. 460; Supreme Tent of Knights of Maccabees of the World v. Mc Allister, 132 Mich. 69, 92 N. W. 770, 102 Am. St. Rep. 382; James v. Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum, 130 Fed. 1014. Dependency for favor or affection or companionship is held to be excluded; Alexander v. Parker, 144 111. 366, 33 N. E. 1S3, 19 L. R. A. 187, where an affianced wife was held not to be a dependent; contra, Mc Carthy v. Supreme Lodge, 153 Mass. 314, 26 N. E. S66, 11 L. R. A. 144, 25 Am. St. Rep. 637. It is held in some courts that a woman is a dependent who in good faith lives with a member in the belief that she is his wife, although there is no legal marriage; Supreme Lodge, A. O. U. W., v. Hutchinson, 6 Ind. App. 399, 33 N. E. 816; Supreme Tent of Knights of Maccabees of the World v. Mc Allister, 132 Mich. 69, 92 N. W. 770, 102 Am. St. Rep. 382; contra, Severa v. Beranak, 138 Wis. 144, 119 N. W. 814. Where the association has charter power to pay sums to the family and heirs of deceased members, a contract to pay to his legal representatives was construed to mean his heirs; Harton's Estate, 213 Pa. 499, 62 Atl. 1058, 4 L R. A. (N. S.) 939. A failure to apportion the proceeds of a benefit certificate between the beneficiaries entitles one to the entire sum upon the other proving ineligible; Cunat v. Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur, 249 111. 448, 94 N. E. 925, 34