Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. of Chattanooga v. Mathers

THOMAS, J.:

The petitioner is seeking here an order to quash a judgment of the Circuit Court of Dade County holding valid one entered 21 March 1939 by the judge of the civil court of record in favor of the respondent, Noreen F. Mathers.

This extended litigation, which began in 1938, has many angles, phases, and ramifications. A detailed account of them would require much space in the writing and much time in the reading, but for the purposes of this decision this history may be drastically condensed.

The respondent filed her declaration claiming damages for the death of her husband who at the…