Legal Opinion
Supreme Lodge United Benevolent Ass'n v. Johnson
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 26, 1904No. 1318PublishedCited by 39 opinions
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District in an appeal from the County Court of Tarrant County. Johnson, in a suit for debt against Mrs. Walker, garnished the benevolent association and had judgment against the garnishee in Justice Court, and” again- on its appeal to the County Court, and the judgment was affirmed on appeal by the association, which thereupon obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
We copy the statement of the case made by the Court of Civil Appeals, as follows:
“Appellant is a duly incorporated fraternal insurance organization under the laws of Texas, with its chief place of business in Tarrant County. That its business is conducted for the sole benefit of its members and beneficiaries and not for profit; that it has a lodge system with ritualistic form of work and elective representative form of government, and that the fund from which it pays its beneficiaries is derived from a monthly assessment against its members, and that in all other…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Union Central Life Insurance v. ChowningTexas Supreme Court · 1894
- Marchant v. Pennsylyania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Receiver v. CookTexas Supreme Court · 1894
3Cited by39 opinions
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- Board of Insurance Commissioners v. Great Southern Life InsuranceTexas Supreme Court · 1951
- Reed v. City of WacoCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1949
- Auto Transit Co. v. City of Ft. WorthCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1915
- State v. Pioneer Oil & Refining Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1927
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