Knights of MacCabees of the World v. Parsons
Texas Supreme Court
Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Nacogdoches County. Mrs. Parsons sued the Knights of Maccabees and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed, and on affirmance (179 S. W., 78) applied for writ of error. It was claimed on the trial that insured was killed when the railway depot at Lufkin, where he had a desk, was blown up by an explosion of dynamite stored there.
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Application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Nacogdoches County. Mrs. Parsons sued the Knights of Maccabees and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed, and on affirmance (179 S. W., 78) applied for writ of error. It was claimed on the trial that insured was killed when the railway depot at Lufkin, where he had a desk, was blown up by an explosion of dynamite stored there. The evidence supporting the conclusion of his death is given in the opinion by the appellate court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
This was a suit by Mrs. Lena Parsons on a policy of life insurance issued to George Frank Parsons in which Mrs. Parsons was the beneficiary. In the trial court a judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, afterwards affirmed in the Court of Civil Appeals. The principal issue upon the trial was whether or not George Frank Parsons was in fact dead. It appears that since the affirmance of the judgment in the Court of Civil Appeals he has been discovered to be alive, revealing that no judgment on the policy ought to have been rendered. Under this condition both the plaintiff and defendant…
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