United Order of Good Samaritans v. Brooks

Appellant is a fraternal benefit society, organized and doing business under the laws of this State, and was the defendant in a suit brought by appellee to recover on a benefit certificate which it had issued. ,

The suit was filed on October 12,1923, and summons was served on the following day. This summons re.ad that an answer was required of the defendant “ within twenty days from the service of the summons,” or the complaint will be taken as confessed.

The suit was brought to the January, 1924, term of the Arkansas Circuit Court, Southern District, and, on the 21st day of January, the cause…