Simmons v. Western Indemnity Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Cooke County Court; H. S. Holman, Judge. Action by Georgia Simmons and others against the Western Indemnity Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
[1] This is an appeal from a judgment for defendant under an instructed verdict. We are not advised as to whether the ground upon which -the peremptory instruction was given was that, in the opinion of the court, the uncontroverted evidence sustained one or more of the defendant’s pleas of limitation, or that the court concluded that the facts showed that the policy was not in force at the time of the insured’s death. In this connection, it may be well to state that in our opinion the fact that the Western Indemnity Company on October 16, 1913, in writing, assumed all the liabilities of the…
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