Knights of the Modern MacCabees v. Gillis
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bosque County. Tried below before Hon. O. L. Lockett.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, Associate Justice.
Mary F. Gillis, joined by her husband A. W. Gillis, sought by this suit to recover from the Knights of the Modern Maccabees the sum of one thousand dollars, the amount of a benefit certificate in her favor on account of the death of her son, Furman A. Gillis. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in plaintiffs’ favor for the amount sued for.
According to the agreement of the parties the real controversy between them is, whether death assessment No. 134 was paid to appellant or to some one duly authorized to receive the same, on or before October 30, 1906, and…
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