State Ex Rel. Sumner v. Simon

This matter comes before us on application of the relator, Isaiah Sumner, to compel the district judge, through mandamus, to grant him a suspensive appeal from a judgment rendered on September 1, 1932, in a suit wherein he was the plaintiff and the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the State of Louisiana, was defendant. .The contest appears to have been over a certain policy or certificate of insurance on the life of one Allen Sumner, deceased, father of the plaintiff. The real issue seems to have been between the plaintiff and two interveners in the case, one Fannie Sumner, widow of the…