United States Life Ins. Co. v. Ross

McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.

On October 21, 1897, J. E. Ross, the defendant in error, administrator of R. L. Long, deceased, brought his action against the United States Life Insurance Company, the plaintiff in error, in the state district court of Limestone county, Tex., to recover the sum of a policy .of insurance alleged to have been issued to1 the intestate, with legal interest thereon, and 12 per cent, damages, and a reasonable attorney’s fee. The cause was duly removed into the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Texas, and such proceedings were had therein as…