Daughtry v. Knights of Pythias
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the First Judicial District Oouri for the Parish of Caddo. Land, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
McEnery, J. F. A.
Daughtry, the husband of plaintiff, was a mem - ber of the order of the Knights of Pythias, and belonged to the endowment rank.
*1204He was found dead in a cell of the jail at Shreveport, La. The widow instituted this suit for the amount of the insurance on the life of her deceased husband.
The defence is that the deceased took his own life, and that' the policy was forfeited by the laws of the order,
The facts recited in the record show that the deceased took his own life. There is no theory that can be advanced under the facts that could…
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