National Life Co. v. Rice

BREWSTER, Commissioner.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus. Leave to file it was granted on motion of relator, National Life Company. The writ is sought to require the Court of Civil Appeals at Waco to certify to the Supreme Court certain questions, hereinafter stated, growing out of the decision by that court of a plea of privilege appeal in National Life Co. v. Thomason, 160 S.W.2d 582.

Elbert J. Thomason, a resident of Mc-Lennan County, Texas, sued relator in the district court of that county, alleging (1) that on November 8, 1919, it issued an *1023insurance policy on his life in the sum…