S. L. P., K. & Ladies of Honor v. Grace
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Appellees, as plaintiffs in the court below, the surviving wife and children of T. J. Grace, deceased, on the 14th day of July, 1882, instituted this suit in the district court of Colorado county against appellant, “ The Supreme Lodge of Protection, Knights and Ladies of Honor,” a corporation, for the sum of $1,000, claimed to be due them by appellant by reason of an alleged membership of the relief fund in…
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Appeal from Fayette. Tried below before the Hon. L. W. Moore. Appellees, as plaintiffs in the court below, the surviving wife and children of T. J. Grace, deceased, on the 14th day of July, 1882, instituted this suit in the district court of Colorado county against appellant, “ The Supreme Lodge of Protection, Knights and Ladies of Honor,” a corporation, for the sum of $1,000, claimed to be due them by appellant by reason of an alleged membership of the relief fund in appellant’s order, of said T. J. Grace, at the date of his death, on the 18th day of August, 1880. Appellant answered, first,…
1Opinion of the Court
West, Associate Justice.
This record has been examined with more than usual care, and the conclusion arrived at reached after much deliberation. That conclusion is, without giving in detail all the reasons on which it is based, that under all the facts disclosed on the trial, taken and considered together, we are of opinion that the evidence does not satisfactorily show that any binding contract of insurance, such as is declared on, was ever in fact made between the appellant and the deceased.
The minds of the respective parties never met. There was no such mutual agreement and understanding of…
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