State Mutual Life & Annuity Ass'n v. Kemp

Rebecca M. Kemp brought an action, in the city court of Macon, against the State Mutual life and Annuity Association, upon a policy of life-insurance issued by the defendant to the plain*356tiff’s husband, since deceased. The defendant filed a plea to the jurisdiction of the court, based on the ground that the defendant-had no agency or agent in the county of Bibb, wherein the suit was brought, at the time of the filing of plaintiff’s petition, but that its residence and principal office were in the county of Floyd. At the same term at which this plea was filed, the defendant traversed the return…