Grant v. Independent Order of Sons & Daughters of Jacob of America
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Warren county. Hon. James Stowers Higks, Chancellor. Grant, the appellant, was complainant in the court below; the Independent Order, etc., and one Maggie Nicholson were defendants there. From a decree in favor of the defendant, Maggie Nicholson, the complainant appealed to the supreme court. [The briefs of counsel in this case were lost or withdrawn from the record, before it reached the reporter, hence synopses of them are not given.]
1Opinion of the Court
Whitkield, C.
The original bill in this case was filed by Hammond Grant against the Independent Order of Sons and Daughters of Jacob, and Maggie Nicholson; the effort being on the part of Hammond Grant, the husband and only heir of the deceased, Maria Grant, to recover the proceeds of an insurance policy taken out by Maria Grant in this order for an amount not to exceed $700. The order paid into court the sum of $550, to be contested for by Maggie Nicholson and Hammond Grant, and it was thereupon discharged. "When the case came on to be tried, certain witnesses were introduced for the…
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