National Live Stock Ins. Co. v. Henderson

The appellee, J. L. Henderson, sued the appellant in the justice court of Harrison county on a policy of insurance theretofore issued on the life of a certain animal on which the appellee held a mortgage. He recovered a judgment for $75 in the justice court and in the district court, to which an appeal was prosecuted.

The appellee has filed a motion in this court to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction, but we think there is no merit in the motion, and it is accordingly overruled. It is conceded that the appellee was entitled to recover unless his claim was defeated by a failure to…