American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Hicks

The defendant in error, as the beneficiary, named in a policy issued by the plaintiff in error to her husband, Archie Hicks, for $1,-OOO, dated September 2, 1920, recovered a judgment against the plaintiff in error for $1,370, with 6 per cent, interest from the date of the judgment rendered in the district court of Orange county, upon a trial by the judge, without the intervention of a jury. Upon appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals at Beaumont, this judgment was affirmed. 19 S.W.(2d) 359.

The suit was instituted August 18,1928, substantially eight years after the issuance of the policy of…