Blackmon v. Gulf Life Insurance

Contracts intended to defeat or lessen competition or to encourage monoply are illegal and void. Civil Code (1910), § 6466. While the burial policy issued by the defendant insurance company appears from the allegations to be a competitive instrument and to this extent might be favored by the law, yet as against a general demurrer the petition sufficiently alleged an intention on the part of the defendants to create a monopoly, and the actual creation by them of an illegal combination to drive the plaintiffs, and others in like circumstances, out of the undertaking business, and to secure for…